From one of America's most trusted gardening authorities comes the first dictionary to explain every gardening term in language even the layperson can easily understand. More than 18,000 alphabetically-arranged entries and 5,000 cross-references comprise an extensive listing of plants, fruits, herbs, and vegetables, botanical terms, insects, and more.

A horticultural reference provides detailed information on more than eighteen thousand different plants, along with advice on growing methods, gardening techniques, pests, plant diseases, equipment, and terminology.