Taylor's Dictionary for Gardeners: The Definitive Guide to the Language of Horticulture - Hardcover

Tenenbaum, Frances

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0395876060 ISBN 13: 9780395876060

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1997

Synopsis

Hundreds of illustrations complement the two thousand entries that clearly define and explain horticultural terminology, including botanical names, garden techniques, the anatomy and physiology of plant life, and historical gardening terms and styles. BAKER & TAYLOR

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About the Author

Frances Tenenbaum is the author of several garden books and the editor of the Taylor’s Guide series at Houghton Mifflin.

From Booklist

Houghton continues to capitalize on the name of Norman Taylor, who first produced The Garden Dictionary in 1936, with later editions titled Taylor's Encyclopedia of Gardening. The Taylor name is now used for a series of more than 20 guides on different aspects of gardening--annuals, perennials, bulbs, roses, ground covers, fruits and berries, etc. This is the first dictionary in the series, and it appears to be a hodgepodge of definitions of botanical names of plants, garden tools, insects, diseases, famous gardeners, botanical gardens, and associations.

The definitions are usually no more than three sentences, and on most pages there is a line drawing of one of the entries. Some of the definitions are less than helpful. American Hemerocallis Society is defined as an "organization that publishes an extensive source list . . . ," but one needs to look under hemerocallis to discover that it is a society of daylily enthusiasts. The Fairchild Tropical Garden is said to have one of the world's largest collections of palms and cycads, but the dictionary has no definition for cycads. Definitions of botanical names give just the common name with no description of the plant or its habitat.

Libraries that have the fourth edition revised of Taylor's Encyclopedia of Gardening (1976) will find it far more useful than this new dictionary. For descriptions and photographs of plants only, The American Horticultural Society A^-Z Encyclopedia of Garden Plants [RBB Ja 1 & 15 98] is highly recommended.

About this edition

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0395876060
• ISBN 13: 9780395876060
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 351