ORCHIDS
From the Archives of the Royal Horticultural Society
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336 |
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2005 |
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English |
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16.0 x 16.5 |
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6 1/4 x 6 1/2 |
ISBN: |
0810956233 |
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hardbound |
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 Orchids were brought to Europe from the tropics and subtropics beginning in the 17th century, and by 1839, English plant nurseries were selling 1,600 different kinds of the flower. Long prized for their exotic beauty and astonishing variety, orchids are the royal family of the plant kingdom. The story of this flower, from the hunt for new varieties in the wild in the 1800s to the development of the more than 100,000 hybrids that exist today, is related in fascinating detail in Orchids. |
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| This beautiful book features text by one of the world's foremost orchid authorities alongside spectacular watercolor portraits of prize-winning orchids from the Royal Horticultural Society in London, which spearheaded orchid cultivation in Western Europe beginning in the 19th century. This exquisite collection of paintings commissioned by the RHS every year since 1897 represents the ultimate orchid pictorial history. Now in a reduced format, Orchids is an indispensable sourcebook for those captivated by the beauty and infinite variety of this glamorous flower. |
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| Mark Griffiths, one of the world's foremost writers on orchids, has edited and written numerous publications on orchids and horticulture. He was editor of The New Royal Horticulture of Gardening, and was awarded the Garden Writers' Guild Special Award for a Work of Outstanding Excellence for his RHS Manual, Orchids. Griffiths is horticultural correspondent for The Times, London. |
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Table of contents:
Foreword 6
From the wild 8
Prize orchids 80
ADA 84
Aerangis 86
Aeranthes 90
Angraecum 92
Anguloa 94
Angulocaste 98
Ansellia 102
Arachnanthe 104
Arachnis 106
Ascocenda 108
Brassia 112
Brassocattleya 114
Brassolaeliocattleya 116
Bulbophyllum 122
Calanthe 124
Catasetum 128
Cattleya 132
Cirrhopetalum 138
Cymbidium 141
Cypripedium 148
Cyrtopodium 150
Dendrobium 152
Disa 156
Dracula 158
Hamelwellsara 162
Laelia 164
Laeliocattleya 166
Lycaste 172
Maclellanara 176
Masdevallia 178
Miltassia 182
Miltonia 184
Odontioda 190
Odontocidium 196
Odontoglossum 198
Odontonia 204
Oncidioda 206
Paphiopedilum 207
Phaius 220
Phalaenopsis 225
Phragmipedium 240
Pontinara 242
Promenea 246
Renanopsis 248
Sobralia 250
Sophrocattleya 252
Sophrolaelia 258
Sophrolaeliocattleya 262
Tricopilia 270
Vanda 274
Vascostylis 284
Vuylstekeara 286
Wilsonara 294
Zygocolax 304
Zygopetalum 308
Selected Biographies 322
List of Illustrations 326
Index 332
Acknowledgments 336
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