Latin names: WHY?

[Lorry thompson]

I know what Deans saying no need to ram it down customers necks but it is good to know the Latin names even though I've forgot most of them but at least when there is a variety of oak cherry maple etc you can define them to one species quercus prunus acer etc nowt worse than when you price a job and the customer knows more than you regarding species and can't wait to prove it haha

[Pete Bannister]

Er, at risk of being shouted at, technically they are scientific names (not Latin) as they contain both Latin and Greek

 

too true dude:thumbup1:The important point is not that Latin is used, but that binomial system of classifying living things (as devised by Carl Linnaeus) is used. Its worked for over 200 yrs !

[felixthelogchopper]

I believe it was the Florida Slash Pine I was thinking about, I actually wanted to type Scotspine1 Thanks Felix, I really did like your cartoon a long time ago!

elg

 

Always a pleasure, never a chore

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

I know what Deans saying no need to ram it down customers necks but it is good to know the Latin names even though I've forgot most of them but at least when there is a variety of oak cherry maple etc you can define them to one species quercus prunus acer etc nowt worse than when you price a job and the customer knows more than you regarding species and can't wait to prove it haha

 

we had a job for a guy, he was a mad keen collector and revelled in his collection of obscure ornamentals, we had a bit of a chuckle and banter as he quizzed my knowlege of which I had little within his collection, but then i turned it on him and the truth was clear!

 

the trick is to specialise in YOUR favourite portion of arboriculture, they say a jack of all trades a master of none and it is as true today as when they saying was first coined. always put the effort in to the area MOST relevant to YOUR working situation, and be its master, dont concern yourself with being able to compete with others who also specialise in another area.

 

be good at what YOU do, there is a place for all of us to excel within this industry. This is one of the great things about the continuing development of arboriculture and its increasing technicality, we have so much scope to really focus and be excellent in what we want to do most.

[Lorry thompson]

Aye too true Hama I never try to lie my way through these situations I prefer to talk about what I do know:)

[skyhuck]

FTR, I was joking.

[Xerxses]

Is Snow White involved in that somewhere???

 

 

Nah...

Goat willow, horse chestnut, ash, beech, willow, maple, walnut, wildcherry and whitebeam...

 

Who needs latin?

[Xerxses]

i did say it only covers about 99.999999% which if you talk in terms of swedish tree cover i'm not far off though i forgot about lönn, lind? how could you forget lind, blod bok personal faivoret,

körsbär - they have been tasty this year

 

True lind is nice and plommon! Avenbok, seen any of them? Or En?

[Xerxses]

wrong NOT "all" European languages, look up Germanic languages which make up a majority of north European languages excepting French, that’s German, Dutch, English, all the Scandinavian languages, you then have Celtic etc etc etc.

 

You will find most of the world speaks a language that is NOT Latin based.

 

Well... what you say is true...

BUT early christianity brought latin into this country as the priests gave mass in latin, later the german merchants and miners brought german and then it became fashionable to speak french at the royalcourt, these days the language being enriched by arabic, somali, turkish and several other languages. We do find the odd english word too.... and you find a few swedish ones in english (the Tomte and ombudsman...)

 

My teacher told us about his visit to Japan and the conversation he had with an elderly gardener in one of their parks... latin was their common language! (thats what I have used severaltimes abroad aswell!)thats what ticked my box back then...

[Dilz]

True lind is nice and plommon! Avenbok, seen any of them? Or En?

 

I'm down in tropical Skåne that has such crazy things as these exotics , hornbeams i like, not so many but i see a few, though most people i know call them just Aven, not sure on En though? keeping in line with the thread, when i first came over and dealt with people who actually know about trees (so not the infamous tree felling team company) when i couldnt understand their swedish we used the Scientific names so i knew which trees to prune and fell etc., so it helps, and when putting your self across as a professional arborist some people like to show off their own knowledge of scientific names so it helps to know what they are talking about.