On Sun, 23 Feb 2003 10:20:18 -0600, Rusty Mase wrote:

On Sun, 23 Feb 2003 15:52:02 GMT, animaux
wrote:

Rsuty
That's a new type of cured Italian ham, BTW.

It's funny; when I called the National Wildlife Association regarding my
backyard wildlife habitat application, they guy asked that I don't send Latin
names! How odd.

No, that means he studied range management at an ag school prior to
about 1970. The ag management and horticulture business's abhorrence
of latin binomials was a major impediment to the incorporation of
native plants in landscaping. You can still go to nurseries selling
"Red Oaks". Ignorance dies a hard death.

Rusty Mase

He sounded rather young, but I suppose "sounding" some way is not relevant. To
be honest, I don't even know many of the common names of most of my plants. To
me, it's such useless information.

Many times people are lazy and don't want to learn to pronounce or learn the
terms, but once you know the "jargon" of Latin terminology it makes much more
sense...you know, sinensis, texinensis, so on. Certain terms to classify maybe
leaf shape, or flower part or something outstanding on that plant. The great
part is, it's a Universal (with a capitol U) language of taxonomy which many
gardeners are finally learning.

Victoria