Gardener's Latin: A Lexicon
- ISBN-10
- 1565123840
- ISBN-13
- 9781565123847
- Category
- Gardening
- Pages
- 136
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2003-01-01
- Publisher
- Algonquin Books
- Author
- Bill Neal
Description
A gardener's guide to Latin provides green thumbs with the expertise they need to wade through the technical terms they may encounter in the nursery or in mail-order catalogs. By the author of Bill Neal's Southern Cooking.
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