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1.
Thomas Walter and his plants : the life and works of a pioneer American botanist / Daniel B. Ward. by Series: Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden ; v. 115. | Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden. Heritage series ; ; no. 2.
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction
Publisher: Bronx, New York, USA : New York Botanical Garden, 2017
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1)Call number: QK31.W3 W37 2017.
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Botanicum / illustrated by Katie Scott ; written by Kathy Willis. by Series: Welcome to the museum
Edition: Limited edition.
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction ; Audience: Pre-adolescent;
Publisher: London : Big Picture Press, 2016
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1)Call number: QK49 .W55 2016.
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Animal, vegetable, mineral? : how eighteenth-century science disrupted the natural order / Susannah Gibson. by
Edition: First edition.
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction ; Audience: Adult;
Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2015
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1)Call number: QH83 .G53 2015.
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Latin for gardeners [electronic resource] : over 3,000 plant names explained and explored / Lorraine Harrison. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: electronic available online remote; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2012
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1).
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The A to Z of plant names : a quick reference guide to 4000 garden plants / Allen J. Coombes. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: Portland, Or. : Timber Press, 2012
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1)Call number: QK96 .C78 2012.
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Latin for gardeners : over 3,000 plant names explained and explored / Lorraine Harrison. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction
Publisher: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2012
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1)Call number: PA2387 .H37 2012.
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The A to Z of plant names [electronic resource] : a quick reference guide to 4000 garden plants / Allen J. Coombes. by
Edition: 1st ed.
Material type: Text Text; Format: electronic available online remote; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: Portland : Timber Press, 2012
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1).
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John Ray's Cambridge catalogue (1660) / translated and edited by P.H. Oswald and C.D. Preston. by Series: Ray Society (Series) ; v. 173.
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction
Language: English Original language: Latin
Publication details: London : Ray Society, 2011
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1)Call number: QK306 .R28 2011.
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The Timber Press dictionary of plant names / Walter Erhardt ... [et al.] ; edited by Allen Coombes. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction
Language: English, French, German
Publication details: Portland, Or. ; London : Timber Press, 2009
Other title:
  • Dictionary of plant names
Availability: Items available for reference: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society: Not for loan (1)Call number: QK96 .T56 2009.
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Gods and goddesses in the garden [electronic resource] : Greco-Roman mythology and the scientific names of plants / Peter Bernhardt. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: electronic available online remote; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2008
Other title:
  • Greco-Roman mythology and the scientific names of plants
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1).
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Mabberley's plant-book : a portable dictionary of plants, their classification and uses / David J. Mabberley. by
Edition: 3rd ed., completely rev.
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, c2008
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1)Call number: QK11 .M112 2008.
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Gods and goddesses in the garden : Greco-Roman mythology and the scientific names of plants / Peter Bernhardt. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2008
Other title:
  • Greco-Roman mythology and the scientific names of plants .
Online access:
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1)Call number: QK96 .B27 2008.
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The names of plants [electronic resource] / David Gledhill. by
Edition: 4th ed.
Material type: Text Text; Format: electronic available online remote; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1).
14.
Plant names [electronic resource] : a guide to botanical nomenclature / Roger Spencer, Rob Cross & Peter Lumley. by
Edition: 3rd ed.
Material type: Text Text; Format: electronic available online remote; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: Collingwood, Vic. : CSIRO Pub., 2007
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1).
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Dictionary of plant lore [electronic resource] / by Donald Watts. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: electronic available online remote; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier/AP, c2007
Other title:
  • Elsevier's dictionary of plant lore
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1).
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The Hutchinson dictionary of plant names [electronic resource]. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: electronic available online remote; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: Abingdon, England : Helicon, c2006
Other title:
  • Dictionary of plant names
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1).
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The naming of names : the search for order in the world of plants / Anna Pavord. by
Edition: 1st U.S. ed.
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: [New York, NY] : Bloomsbury, 2005
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1)Call number: QK96 .P38 2005.
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Etymological dictionary of succulent plant names / Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: Berlin ; New York : Springer, c2004
Other title:
  • Succulent plant names
Availability: Items available for reference: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society: Not for loan (1)Call number: SB413 .C1 E28.
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Flora's plant names. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: Portland, Or. : Timber Press, 2003
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1)Call number: QK11 .F632.
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The Firefly dictionary of plant names : common and botanical / compiled by Harold Bagust. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: Toronto : Firefly Books, 2003
Availability: Items available for reference: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society: Not for loan (1)Call number: QK11 .B149.
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Gardener's Latin : a lexicon / by Bill Neal ; introduction by Barbara Damrosch. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: available online remote; Literary form: Not fiction
Publisher: Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books, 2003Copyright date: 2003
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1).
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The names of plants [electronic resource] / David Gledhill. by
Edition: 3rd ed.
Material type: Text Text; Format: electronic available online remote; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1).
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100 flowers and how they got their names / Diana Wells ; illustrated by Ippy Patterson. by
Edition: 1st ed.
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: Chapel Hill, NC : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1997
Other title:
  • One hundred flowers and how they got their names
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1)Call number: QK13 .W453.
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A Gardener's Handbook of Plant Names : Their Meanings and Origins. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: available online remote; Literary form: Not fiction
Publisher: New York : Dover Publications, 1997Copyright date: 2013
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1).
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Plants and their names : a concise dictionary / R. Hyam, R. Pankhurst. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: Oxford [England] ; New York : Edinburgh [England] : Oxford University Press ; Royal Botanic Gardens, 1995
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1)Call number: QK96 .P35 1995.
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Naamlijst van vaste planten = list of names of perennials = namenliste stauden = liste de noms des plantes vivaces / H.J. van de Laar ... [et al.]. by
Edition: 3e geheel herziene druk [3rd. rev. ed.].
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction
Language: dutenggerfre
Publication details: Boskoop : Proefstation voor de Boomkwekerij, 1995
Other title:
  • List of names of perennials
  • Namenliste stauden
  • Liste de noms des plantes vivaces
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1)Call number: QK11 .N111 1995.
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List of names of succulent plants (other than cacti) from Repertorium plantarum succulentarum (1950-1992) / edited by Urs Eggli, Nigel Taylor. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction
Language: English Summary language: Multiple languages
Publication details: Kew, England : Royal Botanic Gardens, 1994
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1)Call number: QK96 .L773s 1994.
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Ladybugs, tiger lilies, and wallflowers / Robert Hendrickson. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: New York : Prentice Hall General Reference, 1993
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1)Call number: QK13 .H498.
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Gardener's Latin : a lexicon / by Bill Neal ; introduction by Barbara Damrosch. by
Edition: 1st ed.
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction
Language: englat
Publication details: Chapel Hill, N.C. : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1992
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1)Call number: QK9 .N338.
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Who does your garden grow? / Alex Pankhurst. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: Colchester, England : Earl's Eye Publishing, 1992
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1)Call number: SB61 .P193.
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Dictionary of plants containing secondary metabolites [electronic resource] / J.S. Glasby. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: electronic available online remote; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: London ; New York : Taylor & Francis, c1991
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1).
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A Preliminary checklist of cultivated Nymphaea / International Water Lily Society. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: Co. Durham : International Water Lily Society, c1989
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1)Call number: SB423 .S978p.
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Taxonomic literature : a selective guide to botanical publications and collections with dates, commentaries and types / Frans A. Stafleu and Richard S. Cowan. by Series: Regnum vegetabile ; v. 94, etc.
Edition: 2d ed.
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: Utrecht : Bohn, Scheltema & Holkema, 1976-1988
Availability: Items available for reference: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society: Not for loan (7)Call number: QK45 .S779 v. 7, ...
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A gardener's guide to plant names [by] B. J. Healey. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: New York, Scribner [1972]
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1)Call number: QK11 .H434.
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Generic names of orchids: their origin and meaning [by] Richard Evans Schultes and Arthur Stanley Pease. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: New York, Academic Press, 1963
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1)Call number: SB409 .S386.
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Flora telluriana ... Determ. coll. inv. obs. et descr. ad C.S. Rafinesque. Philadelphia [Printed for the author by H. Probasco] 1836. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: [Cambridge, Mass., Murray Printing Co., 1946]
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1)Call number: QK95 .R136.
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A second book of plant names and their meanings, by Willard N. Clute. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: Indianapolis, Ind., Clute, 1939
Other title:
  • Plant names and their meanings
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1)Call number: QK11 .C51s.
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How plants get their names, by L. H. Bailey. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: New York, Macmillan, 1933
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1)Call number: QK11 .B155.
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All in a garden fair, by Alice T. A. Quackenbush, with an introduction by Helen Morgenthau Fox; cover, frontispiece and decorations by Mary W. Haring. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: New York, A. T. De la Mare company, inc., 1925
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1)Call number: SB455 .Q1.
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Plant analysis: a classified list of the wild flowers of the northern United States, with keys for complete analysis and identification. To which is added a complete glossary of botanical terms. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: Philadelphia, J.E. Potter [c1884]
Availability: Items available for reference: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society: Not for loan (1)Call number: QK117 .K29p.
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A dictionary of English names of plants applied in England and among English-speaking people to cultivated and wild plants, trees and shrubs. By William Miller. In two parts, English-Latin and Latin-English. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction
Language: englat
Publication details: London, J. Murray, 1884
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1)Call number: QK13 .M55 1884.
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The names of herbes. By William Turner, A. D. 1548. Ed. (with an introduction, an index of English names, and an identification of the plants enumerated by Turner) by James Britten. by Series: English dialect society. [Publications. no.34] Series D. Miscellaneous
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: London, Pub. for the English dialect society, by N. Trübner & co., 1881
Availability: Items available for reference: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society: Not for loan (1)Call number: QK41 .T954.
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Botanical terminology; or, A pocket companion for students of botany: being a concise explanation of the terms employed in the classification and description of the vegetable kingdom. By John Eberle, M. D. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: Philadelphia : Published by M. Carey and son, south-east corner of Chesnut and Fourth streets. Lydia R. Bailey, printer, 1818
Availability: Items available for reference: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society: Not for loan (1)Call number: QK10 .E16.
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Critica botanica : in qua nomina plantarum generica, specifica & variantia examini subjiciuntur, selectiora confirmantur, indigna rejiciuntur : simulque doctrina circa denominationem plantarum traditur, seu, Fundamentorum botanicorum pars IV. Accedit Johannis Browallii De necessitate Historiae naturalis discursus. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: Lugduni Batavorum : Apud. Conradum Wishoff, 1737
Other title:
  • Fundamentorum botanicorum
Availability: Items available for reference: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society: Not for loan (1)Call number: QK41 .L758.
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