MmOesS BY SB. 5S. WILLIAMS, F.LS, F.RHS. 
** Mr, WIitaMs has long been known as one of our best and most successful plant growers.”—Gardeners’ Chronicle. 
**Mr, Witx1aMs’ skill as a plant cultivator is well and widely known.”—Journal of Horticulture. 
THE ORcHID-GROWERS MANUAL 
6th EDITION, ENLARGED AND REVISED. 
BY 
BENJAMIN SAMUEL WILLIAMS, F.L.S., F.R.H.S., 
Author of *' The Orchid Album,” ‘* Select — ser Lycopods,” ‘* Choice Stove and Greenhouse Flowering Plants,” ‘‘ Choice Stove and 
house Ornamental-leaved Plants,” &c. 
Post 8vo., Cloth, price 15s.; Free by Parcel Post, 15s. 6d. 
PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED WITH A LARGE NUMBER OF PAGE AND DOUBLE-PAGE ENGRAVINGS ON WOOD, 
TOGETHER WITH BLOCKS ILLUSTRATIVE OF TYPES OF THE VARIOUS GENERA. 
The first . of this work was published thirty-six years ago, and ever since is publication it has been — to 
be the Orchid-Growers’ Text Book, as is evinced by the numerous letters we are constantly receiving from all parts of the 
world, wherein our saptiapibdants beet, that the ‘‘ Orchid-Growers’ Manual has been their only book of reference and cacanacst 
friend in the cultivation of these plants. 
This popular work has been it remodelled and revised up to the present time, and has been enlarged to 659 pages. 
It contains descriptions of upwards of 1470 species and varieties of Orchidaceous plants, together with 478 synonyms; also 
authorities for the names, the families to which the various genera belong, the flowering period, native country, and references 
figu In addition to ‘this, chapters on the following subjects are given :— 
Tropical On Making Orchid Baskets eating of Orchid Houses 
or Collecting Orchids Potting Epiphytal Orchids ie Youtiintios of Orchid Houses 
Hints on Collecting ids Potting Terrestrial Orchids Shading of Orchid Houses 
Risks of Collecting Orchids Mode of Inducing back Growth Growing Specimen Orchids for Exhi- 
id Treatment during Growth | Wateri ring rchids _ 
Orchid Treatment during Rest Propagation of Orchids a tment Preparatory to ga 
Adaptation = Treatment to Surrounding Raising Orchids from Seeds Packing — for Exhib 
dition Orchids tor Room Decoratio | Insects a — coca 
Treatment of ok Plants Construction of Orchid Houses iseases ru Ore 
Treatment of Plan Glazing of Orchid Houses Greenhouse and. a Orchids, 
Making in all the most complete work on Orchids ever oe. 
PUBLISHED BY oS mS WitLIAMS & SON, 
VICTORIA AND PARADISE NURSERIES, UPPER HOLLOWAY, LONDON, N. 
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