PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION. 



IT is just ten years since I first published the " Orchid 

 Grower's Manual," to which the remarks in the preface 

 to the first edition relate. At that time it contained an 

 enumeration of all the species known to me to he good 

 and showy. In the following pages I have added many 

 new and beautiful introductions that have been made to 

 Orchids generally within the last few years. I may take 

 this opportunity also of saying, that in bringing a Second 

 Edition of this work before the public, it gives me great 

 pleasure to know that the first issue has been the means of 

 promoting and increasing the cultivation of this glorious 

 class of plants, and that I have had ample assurances 

 that some hundreds of cultivators have found my efforts 

 useful. Indeed, repeated solicitations from all parts of 

 the country have chiefly induced me to bring out a fresh 

 edition, which I hope will be found even more valuable 

 than the first. I have endeavoured to make it as plain 

 as possible, in order that persons even with limited 



