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Stearn's Dictionary of Plant Names for Gardeners


A Handbook on the Origin and Meaning of the Botanical Names of Some Cultivated Plants
WT Stearn
363 pages
Orion
 
Hardcover | Edition 3 | 2002 | £24.99 | approx. $50/€32

#133480 | ISBN-10: 030436469X
Explanations for 6,000 botanical plant names of commonly found plants in Europe and the US. New edition of AW Smith's 1963 work.
`Professor Stearn brings a lifetime's experience to his tasks and the range of erudition he displays is enormous; names from many languages are cited including Thraco-Palagasian (pre-Greek) and the amount of biographical information condensed into a small space is astonishing.' J.Cullen, Watsonia.
 
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