PRACTICAL SOFTWARE Green Fingers GARDEN PLANT DIRECTORY 48k Spectrum Green Fingers GARDEN PLANT DIRECTORY This program contains details of 350 flowers and shrubs. You can select plants by name or by important characteristics (height, flower colour, month of blooming, etc.). 48k SPECTRUM INSTRUCTIONS LOADING 1. Connect the ear socket of your Spectrum to the ear socket of your tape recorder. 2. Load the cassette into your recorder and wind it back to the start. 3. Type LOAD " " 4. Press ENTER and start the recorder playing. The program will start to run as soon as loading is complete. (if the program does not load correctly, try a different volume setting for your tape recorder). TYPING IN NAMES Always use lower case, even with proper names, with a single space between words (no hyphens) e.g. 'lily of the valley' not 'Lily-of-the-Valley'. Scroll? When this appears, press any key to fit the bottom of the page on the screen (except N, A or SPACE). HOW GREEN FINGERS CAN HELP YOU Green Fingers will help you fill your garden with flowers and colour throughout the year! Will help choose plants to thrive in the particular conditions of your garden, whether sunny or shady, dry or damp. And will generally help choose plants to meet most of your gardening needs. DETAILS OF EACH PLANT Each of the 352 plants in the directory is listed by its Latin name and common name, and described in terms of 17 characteristics:- 1) type of plant, 2) height at maturity, 3) spread at maturity, 4) whether deciduous or evergreen, 5) hardiness, 6) whether annual, biennial or perennial, 7) light needs, 8) soil moisture needs, 9) soil acidity needs, 10) time to plant or sow, 11) whether can/need to prune or cut, 12) significant leaf colour (e.g autumn leaf colour) 13) berry or fruit colour, 14) whether scented or not, 15) month in which flowering starts, 16) size of flowers, 17) colour of flowers. SEARCHING FOR SUITABLE PLANTS You can search for plants by their Latin names, common names or by words that are part of their names. You can also search for plants by several characteristics together (e.g suit dry soil _and_ bloom in June). You can search by up to four or five characteristics simultaneously. THE CONDITIONS OF SALE OF THIS CASSETTE FORBID THE COPYING, HIRING, LENDING OR RESALE OF THIS PROGRAM WITHOUT THE WRITTEN PERMISSION OF PRACTICAL SOFTWARE. DO NOT USE THE BREAK KEY OR ATTEMPT TO LIST THE PROGRAM AFTER LOADING. (c) 1984 Y. Yasin Made in the United Kingdom.