| Stearn's Dictionary of Plant Names
for Gardeners by William T. Stearn Timber Press, 2002 From Abelia, those ornamental shrubs named after Dr.Clarke Abel (1780-1826), to the Zygopetalum of the orchid family, this thick reference provides the etymology of 6,000 botanical names. These are cross-referenced with about 3,000 vernacular plant names to provide a detailed guide to garden nomenclature.. The author,
the late William T. Stearn,
was a botanical scholar who served as a botanist at London's Natural
History
Museum. This work, now reprinted in trade paperback, began as a
revision
of the late A. W. Smith's "A Gardener's Book of Plant Names" (1963).
Originally
published in 1972, it was greatly amended and expanded on 20 years
before
it appeared as "Stearn's Dictionary of Plant Names for Gardeners" in
1992.
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 Stearn's Dictionary of Plant Names for Gardeners A Handbook on the Origin and Meaning of the Botanical Names of some Cultivated Plants Camel'lia f. Evergreen flowering trees and shrubs named for Georg Josef Kamel (1661-1706), Jesuit pharmacist, born at Brno, Moravia; he botanized from 1688 onwards in Luzon in the Philippines and wrote an account of the plants which was published in 1704 by his English correspondent John Ray under his Latinized name, Camellus. Commercially the most important species is the tea plant, Camellia sinensis. THEACEAE |
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