Tales from Titchmarsh
Dec 23, 2021
3 minutes
to-mah-toe’; so goes the old George and Ira Gershwin song. It is something with which I have enormous sympathy. After all, as far as gardening goes, you say clee-may-tiss and I say clem-ahtiss. Does it really matter? Well, probably not, but on the basis that the aim of the binomial system of nomenclature devised in the 18th century by the Swedish botanist Carl von Linné (Linnæus to the cognoscenti) was that it should be worldwide in its application
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