(never capiltalised) of gardens, an author citation used in two ways
Hort., in the taxonomy of plants, is an abbreviation used to indicate a name that saw significant use in the horticultural literature (usually of the 19th century and earlier), but was never properly published. ==Origins and usage== `Hort.,` short for Hortulanorum, was proposed in order that a non-wild, cultivated plants known and described in a.....
Horticulture
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