IV PEEFACE . 



It is highly gratifying to us to receive constant communications 

 from various parts of the world from Orchid Growers who express their 

 delight in having read this work, and who state that it was the means 

 of their first commencing to grow this fascinating group of plants ; it is 

 in deference to the wishes of many of our old subscribers that we have 

 launched upon this new venture, and we hope that the support accorded 

 to the former editions of this work by the Orchid-loving community may 

 be renewed to this edition ; no expense or pains have been spared to 

 make it as complete as possible, and we haye again been reluctantly 

 compelled to increase the price. As before stated in the previous edition 

 of this work we do not aim to instruct Botanists, but to assist Amateurs, 

 by placing before them plain and practical information on a sound 

 scientific basis, so that for the time and pains bestowed on the cultivation 

 of this charming class of plants, they may be rewarded by the production 

 of fine specimens, and as a consequence, abundant and beautiful flowers. 



HENRY WILLIAMS. 

 May, 1894. 



