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Gardener's Latin

by Bill Neal

Do you like your plants proceris(tall or long) or pumili(dwarf; low-growing; small)? Phoenicolasii(with purple hair) or pyriformes(shaped like a pear)? Does your vegetable garden favor esculenti(tasty; edible) plants, rather than emetici(vomit-causing) ones? Do you keep urticoides(nettle-like) plants out of the schoolyard garden, but tender the learning patch with anacanthi(thornless) seedlings? So don't plant a zibethinus(foul-smelling) or tragophyllus(having leaves with a goat-like odor) plant under your windowsill. Refer to this helpful, clear, and clever volume and all your gardening ventures will be simply mirabile(marvelous; astonishing).

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