Orchids
by James O'Brien
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About this eBook
- Author
- O'Brien, James, 1842-1930
- Credits
- Produced by The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net. (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- SB: Agriculture: Plant culture
- Subject
- Orchids
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 33593
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33593
- Release Date
- August 31, 2010
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.EDITED BY.... — R. HOOPER PEARSON
- 2.Present-Day Gardening — List of Volumes in the Series. — Orchids
- 3.By James O'Brien — With Eight Coloured Plates
- 4.PREFACE
- 5.CONTENTS
- 6.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- 7.ORCHIDS
- 8.INTRODUCTION
- 9.CHAPTER I — THE RISE AND PROGRESS OF ORCHID CULTURE
- 10.CHAPTER II — STRUCTURE OF ORCHID FLOWERS
- 11.CHAPTER III — DIFFICULTIES TO OVERCOME
- 12.CHAPTER IV — STRUCTURE OF THE ORCHID HOUSE — THE STAGING — METHOD OF HEATING — TEMPERATURE — Table of Temperatures for Orchid Houses — THE SINGLE ORCHID HOUSE — SHADING
- 13.CHAPTER V — THE POTTING AND BASKETING PROCESS — BASKETS AND POTS — STAKING OR FIXING ORCHIDS — LABELLING THE PLANTS
- 14.CHAPTER VI — REMOVING USELESS LEAVES AND BULBS — USELESS PSEUDO-BULBS
- 15.CHAPTER VII — PROPAGATION BY DIVISION
- 16.CHAPTER VIII — WATERING EPIPHYTAL ORCHIDS — WATERING TERRESTRIAL ORCHIDS
- 17.CHAPTER IX — MANURES FOR ORCHIDS
- 18.CHAPTER X — RESTING ORCHIDS
- 19.CHAPTER XI — SPECIALLY RARE AND VALUABLE PLANTS
- 20.CHAPTER XII — DISEASES AND INSECT PESTS — SCALE INSECTS — MEALY BUG — COCKROACHES — SLUGS, SNAILS, AND WOODLICE
- 21.CHAPTER XIII — PERIODICAL INSPECTION
- 22.CHAPTER XIV — ORCHIDS FOR THE CONSERVATORY
- 23.CHAPTER XV — ORCHIDS AS CUT FLOWERS
- 24.CHAPTER XVI — IMPORTING ORCHIDS
- 25.CHAPTER XVII — TREATMENT OF IMPORTED ORCHIDS
- 26.CHAPTER XVIII — ODOURS OF ORCHIDS
- 27.CHAPTER XIX — HYBRIDISING AND RAISING SEEDLING ORCHIDS — SEED SOWING — SELECTION OF SUBJECTS FOR HYBRIDISING — POTTING MATERIAL FOR HYBRID ORCHIDS
- 28.CHAPTER XX — ENUMERATION OF THE PRINCIPAL GENERA AND SPECIES IN CULTIVATION
- 29.CHAPTER XXI — ORCHID HYBRIDS
- 30.INDEX — THE END
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