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Old 15-09-2006, 12:42 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening
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Default Plant Finder Software?

pruned

Anyway, a bit of software that will enable you to enter requirements and
then produce some suggestions would be splendid. Plus the ability to cross
reference Latin names and common names would help too.


pruned

To produce such a software package would be very time consuming therefore
expensive to buy. To amortize production costs would need a large market
and there would be very few customers willing to pay many times more than
the cost of the RHS's Encyclopedia of Plants and Flowers ISBN
0-86318-386-7.

And do not forget that eventually the programme might become unuseable.
Have you tried running a very old software programme only to find that
present day disc operating systems do not like it? Books do not have that
problem!

Geoff