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About Orchids

by Boyle Frederick

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Author: Boyle Frederick

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Frederick Boyle is known as the researcher of plants whose studies are popular all over the world and have been republished a number of times. This book of his is devoted to orchids and describes everything concerning these flowers including their origin, types, conditions for growing and a number of other interesting and useful things which would fascinate all lovers of gardens and flowers.

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...villainous concrete floor. Despairing of horticulture indoors as out, I sometimes thought oforchids. I had seen much of them in their native homes, both East andWest--enough to understand that their growth is governed by strict law. Other plants--roses and so forth--are always playing tricks. They musthave this and that treatment at certain times, the nature of which couldnot be precisely described, even if gardening books were written by menused to carry all the points of a subject in their minds, and to expressexactly what they mean. Experience alone, of rather a dirty anduninteresting class, will give the skill necessary for success. And thenthey commit villanies of ingratitude beyond explanation. I knew thatorchids must be quite different. Each class demands certain conditionsas a preliminary: if none of them can be provided, it is a waste ofmoney to buy plants. But when the needful conditions are present, andthe poor things, thus relieved of a ceaseless preoccupation, can attendto...

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