Hear that kind of clap-trap all the time and it just isn't true. There is
something sad about people who glibly say that they are stupid and are proud
to be that way. Like the man said: "You can't handle the truth"!

Horticulture is supposed to be applied botany but few horticulturists are
willing to admit their limitations and lack of understanding of how and why
things really work. Most mispronounce plant names and are intimidated by
"big words".


I Don't Like Spam wrote in message
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On Tue, 18 Feb 2003 14:58:01 GMT, "P van Rijckevorsel"
wrote:

It is very easy to use words such as "idiot stepchildren". Actually the
relationship between horticulture and botany is one of long standing and
a
fairly complex one. You don't seem to handle complexity very well, do
you?
PvR

Cereoid+10 schreef
You seem to be forgetting that this is a botany newsgroup not a butt
kissing newsgroup, Rinkytink.

In many instances, horticulturists are the idiot stepchildren of
botany.
Most of what they expound is years out-of-date of botanical knowledge and
often incorrect. Their grasp of plant taxonomy and nomenclature is
typically
nil at best. To most of them any name regardless of its validity is good
enough. You should know better.

If you know nothing about the subject your opinion means nothing



At least people in horticultural fields will get their hands dirty and
actually DO something, and try to HELP people, rather than calling
names. If horticultural "knowledge" is years out of date, it is
because the taxonomists and nomenclaturists keep changing their minds
about classifications and names. Scientific names engraved in stone
and never changing? HOGWASH! Scientific knowledge an ultimate truth?
NO WAY! Both horticulture and botany are a process of refining
understanding; neither is perfect, nor are their practitioners.