SELECT ORCHIDACEOUS PLANTS. 



BY ROBERT WARNER, F.R.H.S. 



THE NOTES ON CULTURE BY B. S. WILLIAMS, 



Author of the " Orchid-Grower's Manual," and " Hints on the Cultivation 

 of Ferns," assisted by some of the best Growers. 



LONDON : LOVELL REEVE & Co, 



Extract respecting this work from Cottage Gardener, 

 July 22, 1862 : 



" This work promises to be excellent in every respect. The portraits 

 of the Orchids in the first number, just published, are of life-size, and 

 truthfully drawn and coloured. They are four in number Phalsenopsis 

 Schilleriana, Cattleya amethystoglossa, Vanda insignis, and Cattleya 

 Warscewiczii delicata. The work will embrace only those Orchids which 

 are most beautiful and recently acquired, whether they be species or 

 varieties, and thus will include ' real gems of the OrcMd-house, which are 

 rather ignored by those who look at the subject from a purely scientific 

 point of view.' Yet there is enough of scientific description, given in 

 language intelligible to every reader, sufficient to confirm him in his 

 identifying the plant, which he may do, however, by the portraits, without 

 any such aid. The directions for cultivating the Orchids portrayed are 

 also full and good. In fact the work, judging from the specimen, will be 

 such as might be expected from the authors, they being one of the largest 

 amateur proprietors, and one of the best practical cultivators of Orchids in 

 our times." 



