Download or read book A Portable Latin for Gardeners written by James Armitage and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2017-02-22 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the perfect quick reference for working in the garden, shopping for plants, or conducting botanical research. The 1,500 terms are grouped by categories, making it easy to quickly find words related to color, size, form, habitat, scent, taste, and time.
Download or read book Latin for Gardeners written by Lorraine Harrison and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2012-10-12 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since Latin became the standard language for plant naming in the eighteenth century, it has been intrinsically linked with botany. And while mastery of the classical language may not be a prerequisite for tending perennials, all gardeners stand to benefit from learning a bit of Latin and its conventions in the field. Without it, they might buy a Hellebores foetidus and be unprepared for its fetid smell, or a Potentilla reptans with the expectation that it will stand straight as a sentinel rather than creep along the ground. An essential addition to the gardener’s library, this colorful, fully illustrated book details the history of naming plants, provides an overview of Latin naming conventions, and offers guidelines for pronunciation. Readers will learn to identify Latin terms that indicate the provenance of a given plant and provide clues to its color, shape, fragrance, taste, behavior, functions, and more. Full of expert instruction and practical guidance, Latin for Gardeners will allow novices and green thumbs alike to better appreciate the seemingly esoteric names behind the plants they work with, and to expertly converse with fellow enthusiasts. Soon they will realize that having a basic understanding of Latin before trips to the nursery or botanic garden is like possessing some knowledge of French before traveling to Paris; it enriches the whole experience.
Download or read book RHS Latin for Gardeners written by Lorraine Harrison and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This beautifully illustrated guide unlocks the mysteries of botanical Latin explaining what plant names mean and the descriptive clues they conceal.
Download or read book Practical Latin for Gardeners written by James Armitage and published by Crows Nest. This book was released on 2017-02-22 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A handy, pocket-sized and unique guide, an ideal companion for use in the garden or when out and about selecting new plants.
Download or read book Gardener s Latin written by Bill Neal and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2003-03-21 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIV 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 down the path from abbreviatus to zonatus, turning aside here and there along the way for little-known horticultural facts and fables and the wisdom of gardeners from Virgil to Vita Sackville-West.“/DIV>
Download or read book RHS Practical Latin for Gardeners written by The Royal Horticultural Society and published by Mitchell Beazley. This book was released on 2018-02-15 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: RHS Practical Latin for Gardeners is a unique guide to plant binomials based on the bestselling RHS Latin for Gardeners. It contains 1,500 of the most useful and most widespread Latin names, organized into thematic chapters including Colour, Size, Form and Habitat. Each chapter is further subdivided into smaller groups, such as large plants and small plants. This allows gardeners to make new connections and discoveries in a way standard alphabetical lists don't permit. 'Behind the Name' feature boxes further increase the book's practical value, and a wide range of botanical watercolours ensure that it is beautiful as well as functional. This book includes a definition and pronunciation guide for each word, as well as a 16-page alphabetical index, so that it can still be used as a conventional dictionary of Latin names. And its handy, pocket-sized format makes it the perfect gift.
Download or read book A Little Book of Latin for Gardeners written by Peter Parker and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2018-11-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did the delphinium get its name? Which parts of the body lend their names to auriculas and orchids? Who are the gentian, lobelia and heuchera named after? Why are nasturtiums and antirrhinums connected? What does an everlasting pea have to do with Indian miniature paintings? These are some of the questions answered in Peter Parker's adventurous exploration of the mysteries of Botanical Latin. Evolved over many centuries and often thought to belong to the rarefied world of scholars and scientists, this invented language is in fact a very useful tool for everyday gardening. It allows us to find our way around nurseries; it sorts out confusions when two plants have the same English name; and it gives us all kinds of information about how big or small a plant will grow, what shape or colour it will develop, and what habitat it prefers. In his lively survey, Parker agues that Botanical Latin is not merely useful, but fun. The naming of plants draws upon geography, social and medical history, folklore, mythology, language, literature, the human body, the animal kingdom and all manner of ancient beliefs and superstitions. The book, beautifully illustrated with old woodcuts, explains how and why plants have been named, includes handy lists of identifying adjectives, and takes the reader down some of the stranger byways of human endeavour and eccentricity.
Download or read book The Gardener s Botanical written by Ross Bayton and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-02-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "With more than 5,000 entries and 350 botanical illustrations" --from title page
Download or read book A Gardener s Latin written by Richard Bird and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Botanical Latin written by William Thomas Stearn and published by Timber Press (OR). This book was released on 1995 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Botanical Latin is an internationally used technical language developed over the past 250 years for the naming and description of plants. In that time, in order to meet the expanding need for accurate scientific descriptions, its vocabulary has been continually enriched with new words, mostly coined from Greek, and with classical Latin words now given precise and particular botanical meanings.
Download or read book Gardener s Latin written by Bill Neal and published by Robert Hale. This book was released on 1993-04-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today's gardeners encounter Latin terms whenever they enter garden centres or pick up mail-order catalogues. They must still, of course, decide whether dahlias or peonies will best complete that floral border. But new questions in an increasingly technical vocabulary are sprouting up among perennial concerns and demanding attention from devoted gardeners.
Download or read book The Enthusiasts Book of Gardening Latin written by Bookwise International and published by . This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you marvel at the gardening experts on radio and television, who seem tonow the scientific names of a bewildering range of plants, or if the sameames leave you baffled at garden centres and nurseries, The Enthusiast'sook of Gardening Latin is the book for you. Written in a style which isnformed, but above all accessible, it explains the background to the systemf plant classification which is used internationally and show how thisystem enables every plant known to man to be readily identifiable throughhe use of its Latin name.
Download or read book A Primer of Botanical Latin with Vocabulary written by Emma Short and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-03-21 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A practical guide for botanists worldwide, providing a simple explanation of Latin grammar along with an in-depth vocabulary.
Download or read book Botanical Latin written by William Thomas Stearn and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Botanical Latin written by William T. Stearn and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Botanical Latin written by W. T. Stearn and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Gardeners Chronicle written by and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 974 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
