A portable Latin for gardeners : more than 1,500 essential plant names and the secrets they contain /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Armitage, James (Horticultural writer) (Author)
Corporate Author: EBSCOhost
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2016.
Subjects:
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • How to use this book
  • A brief guide to plant names
  • Color : light colors ; bright colors ; dark colors and multicolors
  • Plant form : habit ; spreading growth ; size ; shape
  • Features of plants : flowers ; leaves ; fruit ; stems and shoots ; texture and thorns ; taste and smell ; additional features
  • Comparisons : animals ; man-made objects ; natural objects ; appearance of other plants ; leaves of other plants
  • Places and people : Europe ; Asia ; North and South America ; other areas of the world ; plant habitats ; people
  • Ideas, associations, and properties : animal associations ; useful properties ; good qualities ; bad qualities ; relationships ; aspects of time ; further concepts ; other names as names
  • A-Z index
  • Credits.