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Growing Thistels from seeds
In article , Alan Gould
writes In article , Kay Easton writes But what I was asking you is are you aware of any greater taxonomic confusion among the brassicas than among other plants (other, of course, than the problem of common names which have never attempted to mirror taxonomy and which may be used by different parts of the country to refer to different plants) They also vary from country to country. The point I have already made is that whatever the common name of a plant may be, or for that matter whatever its taxonomic name is, a gardener needs to know which plant family it belongs to in order to carry out correct crop rotations. But there are two points there - firstly the same common name may be applied to plants of different families - like gillyflower, for example Secondly, although in many cases closely related plants share similar growth preferences this may not always be true, where, for example, they have come to occupy different habitats, and secondly, similarity of growth preference does not imply close relationship. So removal of plant from a particular family would not mean that you had to alter its position in crop rotations - unless, of course, generations of gardeners had got it wrong! -- Kay Easton Edward's earthworm page: http://www.scarboro.demon.co.uk/garden/ |
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