Excerpt from The Orchid-Grower's Manual: Containing Brief Descriptions of Upwards of Four Hundred and Forty Orchidaceous Plants IT is just ten years since I first published the Orchid Grower's Manual, to which the remarks in the preface to the first edition relate. At that time it contained an enumeration of all the species known to me to be good and showy. In the following pages I have added many new and beautiful introductions that have been made to Orchids generally, within the last few years. I may take this opportunity also of saying, that in bringing a Second Edition of this work before the public, it gives me great pleasure to know that the first issue has been the means of promoting and increasing the cultivation of this glorious class of plants, and that I have had ample assurances that some hundreds of. Cultivators have found my efforts useful. Indeed, repeated solicitations from all parts of the country have chiefly induced me to bring out a fresh edition, which I hope will be found even more valuable than the first. I have endeavoured to make it as plain as possible, in order that persons even with limited. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.