More dumbing down …

… O tempora, o mores - gardeners are dropping their Latin! Harry Mount - The Oldie. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

You don’t need to have learnt Latin to learn Latin botanical terms – the excellent RHS Latin for Gardeners, by Lorraine Harrison, explains it all. And what a lot of romance, history and sheer knowledge you kiss goodbye to, when you jettison botanical Latin.

What is wrong with people these days?  God forbid that you expand your knowledge beyond the merely contemporary.