ORCHID-GROWER’S MANUAL. 87 
The Orchid-Grower’s Manual, containing descriptions of the best Species 
and Varieties of Orchidaceous Plants. By B. S. Wruwtams. 
6th edition. London.: Victoria Nurseries, Holloway. 1885. 
8vo, pp. 660; price 6s. 6d. 
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this book fills a vacant place for which the more expensive an 
beautifully-illustrated works are not suited. Orchid-lovers are on 
the increase: not perhaps that many more of the wealthy class are 
o branch of the subject has been neglected. The habitats, means 
of collecting, treatment at 0 : 
exhibition, structure of orchid-houses, are all dealt with in the 
there are numerous references to plates, synonyms, &c. _ : 
In ing over some of the more popular genera in a horti- 
cultural work of this nature one cannot but be struck by the number 
of species only known in cultivation. Collectors of dried plants 
meet with them; and again m rhaps most, of our finest 
cultural plants are only obtained by live-plant collectors, who, 
with a few notable exceptions, do not dry even a few flowers of their 
Scientific names, while Roses, Primulas, and other florists’ flowers 
take simply fancy names. Of course in a book like the ee 
d to adhere to the well-known names ; but it would be highly 
