Description

Timber Press, Incorporated [Published Date: 1985]. Hardcover, 241 pages : color and black and white illustrations, bibliography, index ; 26 cm. 1985 reprint. Very good ind good+ dust jacket. Black cloth covered boards with gold lettering on spine. Light bumping and scuffing to edges and corners of covers. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. Dust jacket has a 1" tear to the paper over the top edge of the front cover near the spine and a few other smaller nicks and tears and light creasing along edges. light overall scuffing and soiling to jacket as well. Now in an archival quality (removable) Brodart cover. [From front jacket flap] With the publishing of this book on vandas, dendrobiums and other orchids, J N Rentoul has completed three books which together cover the vast majority of orchids that are grown in this country. The first volume covered cymbidiums and slippers, the second volume the cattleyas and other epiphytes and as did both those volumes, this third one gives full details of its subjects, the vandas, dendrobiums and others. Potting materials, fertilisers, propagation and the use of glass-houses are each given extensive attention and how to care for your orchids and protect them from pests, diseases and predators is also fully explained. The fascinating story of the discovery of the vandas and dendrobiums is told and a picture is drawn of the devastation wrought by some early field staff of prominent European and American nurseries. Using the modern propagation methods described in these books we can, with care and patience, produce beautiful and rewarding blooms of truly spectacular plants. There are over 200 coloured illustrations of orchids as well as many black-and-white photos, pedigree charts and maps included in this book.