Before revision: Defining the word In the first edition (June 1979) of The Plantsman (a specialist journal published by the Royal Horticultural Society) , Sandra Raphael (then a senior editor in the Dictionary Department of the Oxford University Press) contributed a short article on the history and meaning of the word.
After revision: Defining the word In the first edition (June 1979) of The Plantsman (a specialist magazine,since 1994 published by the Royal Horticultural Society) , Sandra Raphael (then a senior editor in the Dictionary Department of the Oxford University Press) contributed a short article on the history and meaning of the word.