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Re: Using botanical names..part 100

I think you all are being a little too sensitive. Some of you don't need
botanical names. I understand that. I don't care if you do or don't. But I
could not run my business at all if I didn't know them. You can call every
plant a monkey-butt for all I care. But if you want to truly identify a
plant, remember that botanical names are simply a cataloging system that
helps us see the plant world. I can't go with common names because I deal
with a lot of plants and need a way to organize them in my brain. Taxonomy
does just that. It also follows, as close as we can get as we don't know
everything, evolutionary hierarchy. It is not perfect, but we botanists
never have claimed that it is. Anyway, take it or leave it. I need it.
Jared R. Shortman
jared@tucsongrowers.com
Tucson Growers
www.tucsongrowers.com
(520) 882-7060
2509 N. Campbell #338
Tucson, AZ 85719

-----Original Message-----
From: utah blaine <utahblaine@webtv.net>
To: seeds-list@eskimo.com <seeds-list@eskimo.com>
Date: Saturday, July 18, 1998 3:52 PM
Subject: RE: Using botanical names..part 100


ha ha ha
thats funny ya think that useing names would make  a better
gardener..thats totally absurb it would be up to yer soil and yer
weather on how good of  a gardener a person would grow.
but if ya insist on jinxing yer self or boosting yer ego so be it... but
the claims ya  make are NOT supposrt by sceince and the law of  moter
nature
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