The World Wildlife Fund book of orchids

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Abbeville Press, Oct 1, 1989 - Gardening - 276 pages
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Kramer's lively, authoritative text covers legend, botany, and cultivation of orchids. The gorgeous pictures and complete captions on the stellar members of this family make this a book no orchid collector can be without. 234 illustrations, 212 in full color.

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Contents

Preiace
9
HISTORY
17
Victorian Orchidomania
23
Copyright

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Common terms and phrases

American Orchid Society Ascocentrum Autumn Flower width Autumn/winter Flower width beauty blooms Brassavola Brassia Brazil called Cattleya collection collectors Colombia color cross cultivation Cymbidium Cypripedium deciduous Dendrobium discovered Doritaenopsis dwarf England Epidendrum epiphytic epiphytic genus epiphytic orchids Flower width 3-4 Free catalog Free list genera genus grow orchids Guatemala hobbyists houseplants Hybrid Summer Flower Hybrid Variable Flower Hybrid Winter Flower insect introduced John Lindley labellum Laelia large flowers leaves Loddiges Lycaste meristem Mexico Miltonia Nathaniel Wallich native Nurseries Odontoglossum Oncidium opposite Orchid Growers original P.O. Box Paphiopedilum Peru petals Phalaenopsis Plate pollinator pots produced pseudobulbs Royal Horticultural Society scapes scented sepals showy Sophronitis South species Spring Flower width Spring/summer Flower width stem Summer Flower width Summer/autumn Flower width terrestrial orchids Vanda vanilla Variable Flower width Venezuela Winter Flower width

About the author (1989)

Jack Kramer is the author of more than 100 gardening books, including" The World Wildlife Fund Book of Orchids "and "Women of Flowers," which won the Garden Writers Association of America's "Best Book" Award of Excellence. His many magazine credits include "Horticulture, House Beautiful, Family Circle, "and "Architectural Digest." Widely known for cultivating and writing about houseplants, he was uniquely qualified to grow and supervise the photography of the plants profiled in this book.

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TitleThe World Wildlife Fund book of orchids
AuthorsJack Kramer, World Wildlife Fund
Editionrevised, illustrated
PublisherAbbeville Press, 1989
ISBN1558590013, 9781558590014
Length276 pages
Subjects ›  › 

Gardening / Flowers / Orchids
Orchid culture
Orchids
Orchids/ Pictorial works
  
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