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Title: About Orchids
A Chat

Author: Frederick Boyle

Release Date: November 26, 2005 [EBook #17155]

Language: English

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ABOUT ORCHIDS

_A CHAT_

BY

FREDERICK BOYLE

_WITH COLOURED ILLUSTRATIONS_

LONDON: CHAPMAN AND HALL, LTD.
1893

[_All rights reserved_]

LONDON:
PRINTED BY GILBERT AND RIVINGTON, LIMITED,
ST. JOHN'S HOUSE, CLERKENWELL, E.C.

I INSCRIBE
THIS BOOK TO MY GUIDE, COMFORTER
AND FRIEND,
JOSEPH GODSEFF.

CONTENTS.

PAGE
MY GARDENING 1

AN ORCHID SALE 24

ORCHIDS 42

COOL ORCHIDS 60

WARM ORCHIDS 103

HOT ORCHIDS 138

THE LOST ORCHID 173

AN ORCHID FARM 183

ORCHIDS AND HYBRIDIZING 210

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

PAGE
VANDA SANDERIANA _Frontispiece_

ODONTOGLOSSUM CRISPUM ALEXANDRAE 67

ONCIDIUM MACRANTHUM 88

DENDROBIUM BRYMERIANUM 127

COELOGENE PANDURATA 160

CATTLEYA LABIATA 173

LOELIA ANCEPS SCHROEDERIANA 197

CYPRIPEDIUM (HYBRIDUM) POLLETTIANUM 210

PREFACE.

The purport of this book is shown in the letter following which I
addressed to the editor of the _Daily News_ some months ago:--

"I thank