From: larry@wolves.uucp (Lawrence F. London)
Newsgroups: rec.gardens
Subject: Re: bees
Date: 6 Sep 92 02:02:28 GMT
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Miscellaneous programs:

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$13.00    Expert Landscape by SoftSync

$37.00    Home: Landscapes by Generic

$45.00    Home: Landscape by Autodesk

$49.00    DYOH: Landscape by Abracadata



Gardening/horticulture/landscaping/nursery software from HORTLINE BBS



   Directory AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR HORTICULTURE SCIENCE

 

 Number | File Directory Area Descriptions

        |

      1 | American Society for Horticultural Science Information

      6 | Graphics and Statistical Programs

      7 | Chemistry, Biochemistry and Genetic Files

      8 | Instrumentation, Interfacing and Data Collection

      9 | Horticulture (Ornamentals, Vegetables, Fruits)

     10 | Food, Nutrition, Exercise and Health

     11 | Education Programs and Foreign Language Tutorials

     12 | USER UPLOADS



        Directory 9 - Horticulture (Ornamentals, Vegetables, Fruits)



AGPRGS.ZIP 140818 11-05-88        Farm management (feed & livestock)

                                  Collection of miscellaneous IBM-Basic

                                  sub-routines 

DESIGN.ZIP 9999 01-19-88          Apple Production & Profitability  (BASIC)

                                  (HortScience 21:1176-1177 - L.L. Creasy)



EPITHET.ZIP 52773 08-27-88        Epithet finder for plant names. 

                                  A fast computer directory to Latin and

                                  Latinized plant epithets. (TCR shareware)



FASTKEY.ZIP 47995 08-27-88        Key out woody landscape plants quickly. 

                                  A quick key to woody landscape plants,

                                  using 4 vegetative (leaf)

                                  characteristics

                                  for identification.  (TCR shareware)



GARDEN.ZIP 3445 12-08m8>          Plan your garden -- BASIC program

                                  (crude but effective) 



GARDENER.ZIP 50073 04-28-88       Garden planning program (w/Pascal listing) 



GARDPRO.ZIP 47846 08-27-88        Calculate garden productivity. 

                                  A garden productivity calculator for

                                  determining the efficiency and

                                  productivity

                                  of vegetable & fruit gardens. 

                                  (TCR shareware) 



[some information on GPLAN and GASSLIB was lost due to line noise,

 entries reconstructed from memory and with guesswork]

      

GASSLIB.ZIP 170385 10-02-88       The Gardener's Assistant

                                  An interesting garden planning program

                                  which accounts for crops planted, 

                                  family size, garden size and geographical

                                  area.



GPLAN.ZIP 86067 08-27-88          The Garden Planner

                                  Plan your garden/nursery/greenhouse space. 

                                  Garden Planner provides over 60 easy to

                                  learn commands to draw vegetable gardens

                                  and other row crops.  (TCR shareware)



SHORT.ZIP 39075 08-27-88          sHORThand (tm) program to create job lists. 

                                  sHORThand is used to produce job lists of

                                  horticultural activities.  A useful tool

                                  for research supervisors, landscape foremen,

                                  farm managers, and curators. 

                                  (TCR shareware)   



TREELAB.ZIP 100776 08-27-88       Tree Trivia GTREE TRIVIA GAME

                                  has over 400 questions on

                                  plants, people, places and facts on

                                  culti[vars] <info lost to line noise>



DELUXE HORTICULTURAL LABELER      is a 2-line label printing program with a 

                                  built-in database of 200 woody plant

                                  scientific names & 200 common names. 

                                  (USDA zones 2-7). (TCR shareware) 



Welcome to the HortLine BBS!  

The American Society for Horticultural Science BBS

300/1200/2400 bps - (703) 836-2418 

113 South West Street, Suite 400,

Alexandria, VA, 22314-2824



Shareware:  

(many of these programs are available for download from the

Agricultural Library Forum BBS at the National Agricultural Library)



PLAN-IT.ZIP 

GPLAN.ZIP 

GARDASST.ZIP 

GARDENER.ZIP 

PLANTMAN.ZIP

LNDSCPMN.ZIP 



Commercial:  



1) for IBM and older Macs(OS 4.5 or earlier): 

"The Garden Manager" Garden Manager Jeff Ball and Gary Gack.  P.O. Box 338

Springfield, Pa., 19064 I think this is the one also available from Ortho

as:  "Ortho's Computerized Gardening" from:  Chevron Chemical Co.  6001

Bollinger Canyon Rd.  San Ramon, Ca., 94583 



2) for IBM and Mac "Hortis Opis", 

plant finder & reference list J. Mendoza Gardens, Inc.  18 East

16th St.  New York, N.Y., 10003 



3) for Apple/Mac "Mum's the Word",

planning tool with drawing program (scaled drawings) & information

database Terrace Software P.O. Box 1236 Cambridge, Mass., 02238 



4) for IBM

"The Plant Database Library", computerized plant encyclopedia, landscape

plant selector, & garden notebook Taxonomic Computer Research P.O. Box

12011 Raleigh, N.C., 27605 



5) operating system unknown "Just the Right

Rose", database of 600 roses, old and new varieties.  Rosebud 3707 SW

Coronado St.  Portland, Oregon, 97219 



6) for IBM "Infopoint Software

Finder", basic database of plant and bulb information, cultural data, &

mailorder sources Infopoint Software P.O. Box 83 Arcola, MO, 65603 



7) for IBM 

"Gardenview", garden planning and design program;  3-dimensional color

graphics, 380-plant database, "Time Display" feature displays plant growth

changes during the seasons of the year and at times in the future. Other

features: ability to change viewing angle in drawing, edit and add to

database, save or print drawings.  SOURCE UNKNOWN 



8) freeware for MAC

"Garden Stack", freeware Garden Stack designed by Frank Grimes, simple and

elegant little garden organizer:  First Card, the Database, and the Garden

Card.  Educorp 531 Stevens Ave.#B Solana Beach, CA, 92075 Request:

"Productivity Stack #7406" 



For more information see:  "The Growing Edge" Magazine Vol.2 #1, Fall

1990, see pps. 28-35 $4.95, The Growing Edge, New Moon Publishing, Inc. 

215 SW 2nd St., Suite #201, Corvallis, Oregon, 97333 503-757-0027;

published quarterly 



The Agricultural Library Forum (ALF) BBS sponsored by

the National Agricultural Library in Beltsville, Md. makes most of the

shareware listed above available for download. They can be reached at

these numbers 24 hours @ 1200-2400-9600 baud.  



Landscape Plant Manager

Version 1.00 Plant Information System by Robert W. Boufford Feris State

College Ornamental Horticulture Technology program Department of

Biological Sciences Big Rapids, MI 49307 The Landscape Plant Manager is a

specialized computer information management program for use in

horticulture education programs and the landscaping industry.  The prime

goal of LPM is to be a plant selector to assist you in the selection of

plants based on design criteria.  LPM was developed as an alternative to

constantly paging through nursery catalogs and plant manuals when trying

to find plants for a particular landscape situation.  The Landscape Plant

Manager will allow you to:  -Add, delete and modify information about

plants used in the landscape.  -Search for plants based on scientific name

or common name.  -Search for plants matching one or more design criteria

for use in the landscape 



TCR GARDEN PLANNER 

Horticultural Shareware from TAXONOMIC COMPUTER RESEARCH 

This program is being distributed as

shareware.  If you find it useful, please send $39.00 to:  Taxonomic

Computer Research P.O. Box 5747 Raleigh, North Carolina 27650-5747 TCR

Garden Planner provides over 60 easy to learn commands to draw vegetable

gardens and other row crops.  It allows full use of multiple color

combinations/monochrome tones and most ASCII symbols for maximum contrast. 

Many commands operate from function keys and all have plain English names

like plant, delete, path, bed, wall, label, titleblock, grid, color, etc. 

It has also been useful for drawing nursery fields and greenhouse space. 



TCR Garden Planner consists of the following files:  

                                GPLAN.EXE TCR GARDEN PLANNER - 

                                60+ commands to draw

                                vegetable gardens, greenhouse beds,

                                nursery fields, and other row crops. 

                                Print manual below and type 'help'

                                in the program for list of commands. 

                                GPLAN.DOC ASCII format manual for above.

                                Load into any

                                wordprocessor as an ASCII, unformatted,

                                or non-document file. Repaginate, format

                                margins, format page length, and print. 

                                Can be printed from DOS: 

                                  A> type gplan.doc >prn COMMAND.GAR

                                sample garden plan that can be loaded with

                                gplan.exe. Shows basic commands. 

                                *.gar extension for plans saved by gplan.exe



GARDENVIEW 5.1 for EGA/VGA PCs.  Complete plant database plus 32,000

colour 3D design capability. $195.  Free information.  MINDSUN, RD2, Box

710, Andover, NJ, 07821 (201) 398-9557 



CHIP (Computerized Horitcultural

Information Planner) Over 5,000 plant profiles cross-referenced for your

needs for an "Achievable Paradise." Demo disk available for $25.  IBM

compatible Call or write for free brochure:  Paradise Information, Inc.,

P. O. Box 1701, East Hampton, NY 11937.  (516)324-2334 or (800)544-2721



MUM's THE WORD Integrated plant database and garden design software.

Symbol library, colour or B/W. FOR MACINTOSH.  Terrace Software, P. O. Box

271, Medford, MA 02155 (617)396-0382

Gardenview ($195,IBM): This program has drawing and design function

and a 450-plant modifiable zoned plant list;features ed color drawings

of flowers vegies and landscape plants and shows the landscape changin

colors with the seasons. Mindsun 1-201-398-9557



LandDesigner $89,IBM) This design program has a modifiable zoned plant

list ($34 extra). I calculates how many plants are needed to fill an

area and the approx cost.  Green Thumb Software 1-303-460-8384.



Design Your Own Home Landscape ($99, Mac, IBM) Abracadata Ltd PO Box

2440 Eugene OR 97402



Mum's the Word Plus ($165, Mac) 600 plant database.  Terrace Software

1-617-396-0382. 



Hortis Opis ($250, IBM) A 2k plant nonmodifiable database and journal

program for trees, shrubs, vines and grasses.  J. Mendoza Gardens,

1-212-989-4253. 



Rosebud ($44, IBM) A 700-rose database that lets you search for 50

characteristics such as color, fragrance,size,thpe and disease

resistance.  Rosebug 1-503-245-0546



Perpetual Garden Journal and Reminder System ($29, IBM) A program for

keeping gardening notes. Complete with horticulture tips and a search

function.  Double_Pawed Software 432 Bigelow Hollow Rd. Eastford CT 06242



Plant Doctor ($64, IBM) Diagnoses vegetables, fruit and nut diseases.

Elemental Software 1-802-755-0701.



Gardenfind ($39, IBM) An index of the articles tipss and letters in

six gardening magazines from '89 to '91.  Gardenfind Magazine Index

1-206-743-6605.



To learn more about these products read the March/April issue of

National Gardening 1-802-863-1308.



Retyped from Thursday/May7/1992/STAR TRIBUNE, from the Cox News Service.

Green Thumb Software, Inc. of Boulder has announced LandDesigner-Pro, a

powerful CAD software program developed for landscape design. The tool 

enables landscaping professionals to quickly produce high-quality designs

for landscapes, gardens, walkways and sprinkler systems on a personal

computer. More than 300 pre-drawn symbols for plants and other landscaping

materials are included and 12 layers are available for use as overlays to

keep designs organized. Call 1-800-336-3127 for information.





When I was at MacWorld a couple of weeks ago, I saw a demonstration

of a package by Alias called UpFront.  This has to be the most useful

program I have ever seen (commercially available) for architecture.

It is so flexible, they call it the world's first 3D napkin!  It is

fast, and does shading and shadows.  The commercial price was about 

$800 list, with substancial educational discounts available also.

If you are not familiar with Alias, they are the leaders in 3d 

technology, and their programs are widely used to create special effects

in the film industry (examples being Terminator 2 and the Abyss)





There is also a new program for the Mac called "Sprout!".  I've seen

it for sale in MacWarehouse.  Here's the blurb:



        Sprout helps you plan your vegetable garden graphically

        on your Mac.  It comes with editable vegetable databases

        for seven regions, complete with information on planting

        and harvesting times, normal yields, preferred soil pH, 

        spacings for seeds, rows and plants, and cool vs. warm

        seasons.  A planting tool snaps to the correct row and

        plant spacings, then fills in the row with plant symbols.

        Rulers and guides in various scales simplify designing

        your garden.



Its from Abracadata, and it sells for $45.
From: walker@hpl-opus.hpl.hp.com (Rick Walker)
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 19:07:28 GMT
Subject: Re: Re: Sensitive plants (fire fern)
Organization: HP Labs, High Speed Electronics Dept., Palo Alto, CA