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Janis specializes in growing plants that are easy enough that her
customers are assured success, but that aren't common enough to appear
in front of the local drugstore. She uses The Compleat Botanica
to create simple half-page placards that she laminates and posts near
her sales racks. "What I sell are short-bloomers. The
gardener really needs to buy them well before they open, so a picture is
absolutely necessary." Janis' boutique nursery is now beginning to
distribute to some of the area's larger garden centers.
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Q: What does the "specimen available" checkbox mean?
A:
The taxonomic checklist has a checkbox which indicates whether a specimen
of the given type exists in your collection. When a taxonomic name
is checked, all higher ranking names are also checked. Checked items are
also highlighted using a bold face font in the taxonomic hierarchy. This
feature allows you to easily see the distribution and concentration of
your specimen in relation to the whole plant kingdom.
This checkbox is
automatically updated as you add new specimen to your collection.
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Q: Does the plant list contain plants for my climate
zone?
A:
The Compleat Botanica contains approximately 105,000 vascular
plant names covering tropical, temperate, arctic, and marine
plants. There is no bias toward any USDA hardiness zone. See
FAQ 8, What data is included for more about
this.
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Frequently
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Q: If you have a large number of specimen records that
you want to add to your database, you can use the Import command.
A: The Import command reads XML
files which have tagged values that follow a rigorous yet flexible and
easily understood format. In a sense, XML files are �self-descriptive�,
but formally they follow a standard adopted by the World Wide Web
Consortium.
In addition to XML files, The Compleat Botanica can read delimited files such
as comma separated values (CSV) and tab-delimited values (TXT). Delimited
files are exported from most common spreadsheet and database applications.
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