Re: Correct plant names

**"Carol Wallace, Ph.D." g*@mindspring.com**

Absolutely! My main source for pronunciation of scientific names is the
owner of our local garden center, who is British.  Most other people that I
normally interact with just look at me funny if I say Hemerocallis instead
of daylily, so Paul is and always has been my main source - the person most
likely to have used a scientific name out loud to me. But when Doug Green
and I were chatting last wee he gave me equally funny looks when I used the
scientific names. (Of course there were some that I had never heard anyone
say out loud - on those I was just guessing. He set me straight on a few of
those. ;-)  

But I find that when speaking to other US gardeners who use the Latin, we
sometimes seem to be speaking different languages. Last week I had an
interview with a British horticulturalist by telephone and for once felt
comfortable trotting out my scientific vocabulary and pronunciations.
(Especially since Doug made certain I had the right pronunciation for the
plant with which I was most concerned, Thanks Doug! ;-)

Carol
Virtually Gardening
http://www.suite101.com/welcome.cfm/virtually_gardening

> [Original Message]
> From: fran gustman <fgustman@juno.com>
>
>
> Has anyone else noticed that British and Americans pronunciation of
> scientific names is not the same? I was reading through a pronuncation
> guide and got myself in a dither finding that I had been pronouncing
> every single plant incorrectly until I got to "clematis." This I knew I
> had previously looked up. I checked to see where the book was published
> and it was English. 
>
> Fran
>
>
> > > I think it's interesting that my recommendation of a British book 
> > as
> > > the last word on correct plant names drew so few responses from 
> > the
> > > (predominantly American) membership of this list. 
>
>
> Fran Gustman,  fgustman@juno.com
> Editor, HortResources Newsletter www.hortresources.org
> Editor, Wild Ones Journal,  www.for-wild.org
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