Orchids
Chadwick & Chadwick - The Classic Cattleyas Written by a father and son team, who are well known in the American society and now run a nursery, this book describes the larger flowered species and cultivars, how to cultivate them and future hybridising possibilities. 2006 10 ¾ x 7 ½ 251 pages Cover: Hardback Comments: (RRP £35), New Price: £(GBP)25.00 Special offer! Just £15 until the end of June 2022 Add To Basket
Gerritsen & Parsons - Masdevallias - Gems of the Orchid World A comprehensive book on these striking Orchids, which starts with their history in cultivation, through botany, growing, propagation and hybridisation, showing, relates genera and their classification before describing selected species and hybrids, very well illustrated with colour photos. l 2005 10 ¼ x 7 ¾ 299 pages Cover: Hardback Comments: , (RRP £30), New Price: £(GBP)20.00 Special offer! Just £12.50 until the end of June 2022 Add To Basket
Griffiths, Mark - Orchids Telling the history of the introduction of exotic Orchids to cultivation, this is a substantial book sumptuously illustrated with large (many full or near full page) reproduction of the paintings commissioned by the RHS since 1897 of their award winning plants. 2002 12 ¾ x 11 336 pages Cover: Hardback Comments: (RRP £45), New Price: £(GBP)35.00 Special offer! Just £20 until the end of June 2022 Add To Basket
Harding, Patricia - Huntleyas and Related Orchids The first book to treat these attractive plants in such detail, it provides the grower with all the information they need to select which plants to grow – aided by 48 pages of colour photos - and how to grow them. 2008 10 ½ x 7 ½ 260 pages Cover: Hardback Comments: , (RRP £25), New Price: £(GBP)17.50 Special offer! Just £12.50 until the end of June 2022 Add To Basket
Hermans, Du Puy,Cribb and Bosser - Orchids of Madagascar Second Edition Concise descriptions are supplemented with 64 plates of colour photos illustrate 250 species along with line drawings of new species. Extensive bibliography. 2007 11 ¼ x 8 398 pages Cover: Hardback Comments: , Manufacturing fault caused top of front of dust jacket to be folded down in a curve - about 5mm at its maximum. An annoying fault as otherwise still in its original shrink wrap. (RRP £110), New Price: £(GBP)72.50 Special offer! Just £50 until the end of June 2022 Add To Basket
Kaiser, Roman - The Scent of orchids: Olfactory and chemical investigations Whilst somewhat technical the author has tried to make the information understandable to non specialists. Very well illustrated with 150 colour photos. 11 ¾ x 8 ¼ 259 pages 1993 Cover: Hardback Comments: Slight knock to corner, Second hand book – please see important information Price: £(GBP)35.00 Special offer! Just £20 until the end of June 2022 Add To Basket
Koopowitz - Orchids & their Conservation An overview of the biology, ecology, distribution, destruction and conservation of orchids across the world. 2001 10 x 7 ½ 176 pages Cover: Hardback Comments: Damaged dust wrapper, New Price: £(GBP)20.00 Special offer! Just £5 until the end of June 2022 Add To Basket
Kramer - Botanical Orchids This book concentrates on the species first introduced in to cultivation, rather than the later hybrids, and covers their botany, environment and cultivation before detailing with many attractive species, all well illustrated with sketches and many colour photos and pictures. 1998 11 ¼ x 8 ½ 222 pages Cover: Hardback Comments: Wear to dust jacket (RRP £19.99), New Price: £(GBP)15.00 Special offer! Just £7.50 until the end of June 2022 Add To Basket
Withner - The Cattleyas and their Relatives vol 6 - The South American Encyclia species Whilst a somewhat technical book, there is plenty of readable information about these plants. 194 pages plus 28 pages of 72 colour photos. 2000 10 ½ x 7 ½ Cover: Hardback Comments: (RRP £32.5), New Price: £(GBP)25.00 Special offer! Just £12.50 until the end of June 2022 Add To Basket
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