Source List of Plants & Seeds
- To: m*@ucdavis.edu
- Subject: Source List of Plants & Seeds
- From: T* B* A* G* <m*@gardens.com>
- Date: Sat, 6 Mar 1999 14:32:18 -0800
A few days ago someone was asking about a mail order source for a certain
plant. I wanted to let people know about a service offered by the Andersen
Horticultural Library at the University of Minnesota. For many years they
have published in hard copy (and still do ) a publication called the
"Source List of Plants and Seeds". Ernie Wasson of this list first told me
about it. The sources are all mail order and include both retail and
wholsesale. What's especially great is that it lists the named cultivars of
many plants.
The basic information in the book, plus a whole lot more, is now available
on line for a subscription fee of $39.95 US.
Regards,
Carol Moholt
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The URL is: http://plantinfo.umn.edu/
Here's some information about the material:
Plant Information Online is a product of the research effort of the
University of
Minnesota Libraries. It is edited and compiled by Richard T. Isaacson,
Bibliographer
and Head Librarian, Andersen Horticultural Library and Katherine A. Wern,
Plant
Sciences Bibliographer, C. Peter Magrath Library of the University of
Minnesota.
Information included in this site is useful in the plant sciences
especially gardening,
horticulture and botany. It contains the largest listing of currently
cultivated plants of
North America. Subscription costs to this site have been kept at a minimum to
encourage wide access.
Included in this site are current sources in North American nurseries for
over 60,000
plants, over 150,000 citations to current plant science literature, and
listings for more
than 1000 North American seed and nursery firms. It's easy to navigate
among the
site's different sections. The site is updated by staff daily.
SOURCES
Using the sources section of this site, one could find sources for over 3,000
rhododendron, 2000 Hemerocallis (daylilies), 250 hybrids of Lycopersicon
(tomato),
200 cultivars of Acer palmatum (Japanese maple), and 125 hybrids of petunia.
Thousands of sources for individual trees, shrubs, vines, perennials,
annuals, bulbs,
herbs and vegetables can be found.
PLANT CITATIONS
Using the over 150,000 citations to current plant literature one can find
approximately
75,000 different plants accessing illustrations and concomitant
information. Over 150
currently received serials are indexed as received. Also many important
monographs
in botany and horticulture are indexed.
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