cultivar and variety: was Re: Freesia laxa 'Joan Evans'

David Pilling pbs@pilling.demon.co.uk
Thu, 08 Dec 2011 13:25:01 PST
Hi,

In message <1323371199.86365.YahooMailNeo@web84509.mail.ne1.yahoo.com>, 
Jim McKenney <jamesamckenney@verizon.net> writes
>I'm not suggesting that you do this, but if we were to divide the total 
>of those instances

1449

> by the number of posts searched

~32000

>, I'll bet it would show that by and large we get by pretty well 
>without resorting to calling plants cultivars very often. 

0.04 or 4%


Top word with 185694 uses 'the'.

Top name 8271 'jim'

Top genus 3290 'iris', followed by 'crocus' and then 'crinum'

To put 'cultivar' in context, virus scored 1452, amaryllis 1496, 
greenhouse 1292.


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