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acquaintance of the management of Orchids might 

 understand it. More than fifty pages of new matter 

 have been added, containing minute details as to all the 

 more important wants of cultivators. I have also care- 

 fully described all new varieties proved by me to be 

 worth growing whether for purposes of exhibition or 

 for those of private cultivation. Curiosities of mere 

 botanical interest have been omitted, my study having 

 been to give a good list of such kinds as have handsome 

 flowers, or are otherwise ornamental in the way of fine 

 foliage ; let me hope, therefore, that the present edition 

 may be received with as much approbation and prove 

 even more satisfactory than the first. 



B. S. WILLIAMS. 



PARADISE NURSERY, HOLLOWAY, N. 



