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Title: The Woodlands Orchids

Author: Frederick Boyle

Illustrator: J. L. Macfarlane

Release Date: May 2, 2010 [EBook #32205]

Language: English

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THE WOODLANDS ORCHIDS

[Illustration: ZYGO-COLAX x WOODLANDSENSE.]

THE WOODLANDS ORCHIDS

DESCRIBED AND ILLUSTRATED

_WITH STORIES OF ORCHID-COLLECTING_

BY
FREDERICK BOYLE

Author of 'Camp Notes,' 'Legends of My Bungalow,'
'About Orchids, A Chat,' etc, etc, etc.

_COLOURED PLATES BY J. L. MACFARLANE, F.R.H.S._

London
MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED
NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1901

_All rights reserved_

This work is not of the class which needs a Preface. But to the Editors of
the _Pall Mall Gazette_, _Sunday Times_, _Black and White_, _Chambers's
Journal_, _Wide Wide World_, and _Badminton Magazine_ I am indebted for
license to republish my stories of Orchid-seeking, and it is pleasant to
acknowledge their courtesy. If those tales amuse the general reader, I
trust that other portions of the work will be found not uninteresting, nor
even unprofitable, by orchid-growers. Plain descriptions of scarce species
and varieties are not readily accessible. A mere list of the hybrids in
the Woodlands collection would be found useful, pending the issue of that
international catalogue which must be undertaken shortly; but beyond this
I have noted the peculiarities of colour and form in such of the progeny
as seemed most curious. No doubt many experts will wish that I had
described some which are passed over and omitted some described--without
agreeing among themselves in either case perhaps. But I have done my best.

CONTENTS

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HOW THE COLLECTION WAS FORMED 1

THE CATTLEYA HOUSE