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The naming of plants is a difficult matter

LEST it be thought sexist, a Men Only for the green-thumbed and horny-handed, after 40 years in print, The Plantsman was renamed The Plant Review last September.

Much as I loathe the PC policing of English, I prefer the new title. The great beauty of this RHS quarterly is the depth of its feature articles, each devoted to one kind of cultivated plant. But its chief utility is as a review of taxonomic researchand its other publications.

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