Gardener’s Latin

A Lexicon

by Bill Neal

When Latin terms began appearing with increasing frequency on nursery tags and in gardening catalogs, Bill Neal understood that gardeners would need help. So he weeded through the Latin words that describe and distinguish among plants, and he compiled a volume of brief, clear definitions. Neal leads us down the garden 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.

“Nifty…pithy explanations of words that confront every plant tag reader." —The New York Times Book Review

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