The European Garden Flora is the definitive manual for the accurate identification of cultivated ornamental plants and has been designed to meet the highest scientific standards‎.‎ The vocabulary has nevertheless been kept as uncomplicated as possible so that the work is fully accessible to the informed nurseryman‎,‎ gardener and landscape architect‎,‎ as well as to the professional botanist‎.‎ Volume V contains accounts of ninety families of Dicotyledons‎,‎ including large‎,‎ horticulturally important genera such as Rhododendron‎,‎ Begonia‎,‎ Primula and Fuschia‎.‎ Comprehensive keys are provided at the level of family‎,‎ genus and species and line diagrams are included to illustrate important diagnostic features of critical taxa‎.‎ Reference is made to useful illustrations and taxonomic accounts‎,‎ and a small amount of guidance on cultivation is provided for each genus‎.‎