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Cereus question
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 Most of what they expound is years out-of-date of botanical knowledge and often incorrect.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 If horticultural "knowledge" is years out of date, it is because the taxonomists and nomenclaturists keep changing their minds about classifications and names.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. |
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