Warner's Orchid Album: Growing Classic Orchid Species and Hybrids, Notes on Easy to Grow Orchid Care and Culture for Beginners and Professionals, and Fine Botanical Illustrations

€œHailed with great satisfaction in horticultural circles throughout the world.€ - Gardener€s Chronicle Orchidomania: €œAn obsession with orchids; A pleasure gained from raising or collecting orchids.€  Do you have Orchidomania? Nineteenth century England was obsessed with orchids. Every notable royal and gentleman capitalist grew orchids. They obsessed about their care and culture. They went to any length to acquire (by any means) the best and most magnificent specimens available. Shows and exhibitions were dedicated to the intriguingly exotic and seductive orchid. Orchids were all the rage then...and still are today. This book may not cure Orchidomania...but who wants to be cured. Feed your love of orchids with one of the classic orchid growing books of all time. First published in 1882, the first volume of Warner€s Orchid Album was avidly sought after by the upper crust of English orchid growers. Forty-seven beautiful orchid species and hybrids are lavishly illustrated in glorious, full-color botanical illustrations by legendary artists John Nugent Fitch. The Orchid Album was a originally published by the collaboration of two of the most influential orchid celebrities of the 19th Century; Robert Warner and Benjamin S. Williams. The Gardener€s Chronicle described the Orchid Album as a €œ...magnum opus...which was projected with the idea of supplying a demand for illustrations of Orchidaceous plants, with botanical descriptions of the plants figured and notes on their cultivation.... Its appearance was hailed with great satisfaction in horticultural circles throughout the world, and it numbers among its subscribers nearly all lovers of Orchids and many of our leading and most influential horticulturalists." Originally, Warner€s Orchid Album was published by subscription to an elite cadre of English society. Rare when it was first published, few orchid lovers have had an opportunity to gaze upon the beauty contained within its pages. The few existing copies command princely sums at auction. Now, you can join the selected ranks and own a delectable piece of orchid history and revel in the beauty of The Orchid Album. Examine some of the finest orchid species and hybrids ever discovered Learn orchid growing secrets from the best British horticulturists Find out what orchids the most elite Englishman grew in their greenhouses Join the elite ranks of orchid fanciers Features an index with updated orchid species nomenclature Orchid Species and Hybrids Featured: AERIDES LOBBII ANGRAECUM EBURNEUM ANGULOA RUCKERII SANGUINEA BURLINGTONIA CANDIDA CALANTHE VEITCHII CATTLEYA GUTTATA LEOPOLDII CATTLEYA MENDELII GRANDIFLORA CATTLEYA MORGANAE CATTLEYA SUPERBA SPLENDENS CATTLEYA TRIANAE CATTLEYA VELUTINA COELOGYNE MASSANGEANA CYMBIDIUM PARISHII CYPRIPEDIUM CHLORONEURUM CYPRIPEDIUM LAWRENCEANUM CYPRIPEDIUM POLITUM CYPRIPEDIUM STONEI DENDROBIUM AINSWORTHII ROSEUM DENDROBIUM BIGIBBUM DENDROBIUM SUAVISSIMUM DENDROBIUM SUPERBUM EPIDENDRUM VITELLINUM MAJUS LAELIA ANCEPS DAWSONI LAELIA ELEGANS ALBA LAELIA PURPURATA WILLIAMSII LAELIA SCHRODERII LAELIA XANTHINA MASDEVALLIA HARRYANA COERULESCENS MASDEVALLIA SHUTTLEWORTHII MILTONIA CUNEATA ODONTOGLOSSUM ALEXANDRAE ODONTOGLOSSUM ALEXANDRAE FLAVEOLUM ODONTOGLOSSUM ANDERSONIANUM ODONTOGLOSSUM BREVIFOLIUM ODONTOGLOSSUM KRAMERI ONCIDIUM CONCOLOR ONCIDIUM GARDNERI ONCIDIUM HAEMATOCHILUM PAPHINIA CRISTATA PESCATOREA KLABOCHORUM PHALAENOPSIS AMABILIS DAYANA PHALAENOPSIS STUARTIANA NOBILIS PROMENAEA CITRINA TRICHOPILIA SUAVIS ALBA VANDA COERULESCENS Warner€s Orchid Album is a horticultural and historic journey through orchid culture.