Guide to Plant Names by Allen J Coombes - HARD COVER

Guide to Plant Names 

To understand botanical plant names, their derivation, meaning and pronunciation, is to add greatly to one's enjoyment of gardening generally. This fascinating guide provides such enlightenment, dealing as it does with a cast number of plants in cultivation and likely to be encountered. Botanical plant names ate one thing, common plant names another, and of the first are essential and universally accepted as a means of identification, the second can often be greatly entertaining. A very large number of these are listed alphabetically with their botanical equivalents.

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