T is finished. For some three or four years I have worked night after night in 
H the chill of Winter and the sultry heat of Summer accumulating data, consult- 
ing and comparing authorities, and setting down my conclusions as to the best 
means of growing the various genera and species of orchidaceous plants in Australia. 
I can only hope that the result of this labour and care is of benefit to some of 
those who, like myself, find pleasure and relaxation in the cultivation of orchids. 
In the preparation of this work I had recourse to many books. Books on travel 
and administration in remote tropical countries, authoritative works on climate 
and meteorology, reports from Government Botanists in many lands, the works 
of the world-renowned authorities on orchids and plants generally. It is right 
that I make acknowledgment of my indebtedness to these. I must also mention, 
particularly, the following works from which I have gained information, great 
or small, incorporated in my Table:— 
““New Guinea” by L. M. D’Albertis. 
“Unbeaten Tracks in Japan” by Isabella M. Bird. 
“Three Thousand Miles through Brazil” by J. W. Wells. 
“Adventures of an Orchid Hunter” by A. Millican. 
“Twenty-five Years in British Guiana” by Henry Kirke. 
“Asia” by A. H. Keane. 
“Among Swamps and Giants in Equatorial Africa” by H. W. Austin. 
“In the Wilds of South America” by L. E. Miller. 
“Two Years among the New Guinea Cannibals” by A. E. Pratt. 
“Across Papua” by K. Mackay. 
“Through Southern Mexico” by Hans Gadow. 
“Argentina” by W. A. Hirst. 
“The Highest Andes” by E. A. Fitzgerald. 
“Through the Brazilian Wilderness” by Theodore Roosevelt. 
“Among the Wild Tribes of the Amazons” by C. W. Domville-Fife. 
“Upper Reaches of the Amazon” by Joseph Woodroffe. 
“Odyssey of an Orchid Hunter” by W. Burnett. 
“Burma—A Handbook” by Sir George Scott. 
“Madagascar” by Wm. Ellis. 
“The Malay Archipelago” by A. R. Wallace. 
“Malayan India” by John Cameron. 
“British Burmah” by C. J. F. S. Forbes, 
“Dutch Guiana” by W. G. Palgrave. 
“Travels in the Philippines” by F. Jagor. 
“The Philippine Islands” by Sir John Bowring. 
“In the Guiana Forest” by James Rodway. 
“The Wanderings of Plants and Animals from their First Home,” by Victor 
Hehn. 
and many other such works the names of which I cannot readily recall at the 
moment. 
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