Before revision: Defining the word In the first edition (June 1979) of The Plantsman (a specialist magazine, published by the Royal Horticultural Society since 1994 ), 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, published by the Royal Horticultural Society fromuntil June 2019, when it was announced that the title would be changed to The Plant Review 1994 ), 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.