For more than a decade, gardeners have been turning to a beautiful little hardcover book called Gardener's Latin, by Bill Neal. Neal understood that as Latin terms began appearing with increasing frequency on nursery tags and gardening catalogs, gardeners would need help. So he weeded through the Latin words that describe and distinguish among plants and flowers and compiled a volume of select, brief, clear definitions. Gardener's Latin leads us...

This reference book has 2 sections. The first section gives a historical account of the significant changes in the ways by which plants have been known and named. It documents the problems associated with an increasing number of common names of plants, and the resolution of these problems through the introduction of International codes for both botanical and horticultural nomenclature. The second section comprises a glossary of generic and specific...