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ISBN # 0-911266-25-9

Hortica is, for ease of plant identification, a gathering of illustrations, presenting a most comprehensive selection of choice ornamentals, as well as useful plants and edible fruit, photographed in gardens, botanical collections and Arboreta, or in habitat around the world.

Appended by a concise descriptive text, giving family, origin, synonyms if any, vernacular or common names, character with measurements and usefulness. All plants have been assigned their zone of Cold-hardiness, or Range of optimum climate tolerance, as a guide to suitable placement in garden planting.

Hortica differs from the companion works Tropica and Exotica by showing more of the Garden Flora of Temperate and Colder climates, while also including the best of Warm-climate subjects, in the interest of comprehensive coverage of plants as grown in horticulture world-wide.

The Contents include a series of 16 explanatory Essays on the various Plant groupings in Hortica, a Common Names Index, Botanical Terms with chart, Pronunciation of Latinized Scientific names, Bibliography, International Metric System Conversions, Climate maps showing hardiness zones, World vegetation maps, Plant Geography.