Re: Hortus III
Thanks Chris,
I love this sort of info..Can never have enough reference books;-)
Christopher P. Lindsey wrote:
> > >BTW, Don, good old Hortus III is out of date:-)
>
> Yup... Last printing was in '76, I think. A quarter century behind. :(
>
> > If this is the case, what is currently the best reference source? Is
> > there a Hortus IV?
>
> I like to use the RHS "Index of Garden Plants" by Mark Griffiths, although
> I think that his familial delineations aren't quite right. That also
> means that we differ on the naming of certain genera, too, but that's
> OK. The book is good because it's got a ton of names (about 60,000) and
> is affordable (about $42 at Amazon).
>
> http://www.mallorn.com/bookstore/lists/review.cgi?ISBN=0881922463
>
> If you really want to do it right, I prefer Arthur Cronquist's book,
> "An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants." It
> costs $225.00 at Amazon, but even at 8 years of age it's starting to
> fall behind on the latest trends in naming.
>
> Chris
>
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