Cultivars

**C* E* <c*@catrionatudorerler.com>**

Reminds me of the wonderful quote from H.E. Bates' book A Love of Flowers which was published in 1974, the year he died.  By that time he was crusty and opinionated!  Here's the quote:  "(I note, by the way, a growing habit among gardening writers of using the detestable word 'cultivar', which always sounds to me like an ugly Russian cross between 'samovar' and a collective farm.  I consequently consign it to the muck-heap with such contemporary horrors as teach-in, fenestration, escalate, proliferate, reflation, where I hope it will rot.)"

I guess before they just used the term hybrid.  Is there a difference?

Catriona
On Feb 25, 2013, at 2:30 PM, frielster@aol.com wrote:

> Single quotes indicate the variety or cultivar (shorthand for "cultivated variety" name. 

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