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01-08-2008, 08:49 PM
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I just got my copy of Phalaenopsis A Monograph by E.A. Christenson. I am very happy! The drawings are very descriptive. I'm impressed and can't wait to dig in!
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01-09-2008, 03:09 PM
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Orchid Thief
I loved Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean!!! It's an amazing true book - tons of orchid history and interesting orchid information. If you love orchids, you will love this book. It is written spectacularly! I highly recommend it. (Not so much a how-to/care book for orchids)
-Kimberly
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11-09-2013, 09:27 AM
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Originally Posted by kimberlyflack
I loved Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean!!! It's an amazing true book - tons of orchid history and interesting orchid information. If you love orchids, you will love this book. It is written spectacularly! I highly recommend it. (Not so much a how-to/care book for orchids)
-Kimberly
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Fascinating history of orchid hunting and cultivation and of the state of Florida as well. I just bought the ibook version last night and read about halfway through so far.
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01-08-2008, 09:02 PM
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Great collective library, folks!
I only have a few:
Ortho's All About Orchids
The Orchid Specialist by David Squire
Vandas - Their Botany, History and Culture by Martin Motes ...had Dr Motes sign this one the last time he spoke at our meeting
Your First Orchid by Stephen R. Batchelor (AOS Book)
You Can Grow Phalaenopsis (Revised Edition II) by Mary Noble
Botanica's Orchids (over 1200 species listed)
Now that I've seen all of your lists, I see a few I'd like to get eventually. Thanks
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01-08-2008, 11:19 PM
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I would like to have the whole
Withner series on Cattleyas, but it might be tough to find, eh?
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12-12-2008, 05:43 PM
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Here's my list (been collecting orchid books for 30 years).
1. AMERICAN ORCHID SOCIETY AWARDS QUARTERLY, VOL. 15, NO. 1 - VOL. 27, NO. 4.
2. 1990 AWARDS ANNUAL A.O.S. N.c.: American Orchid Society: 1992.
3. ORCHIDS, NO. 4. [Japanese}.
4. ORCHIDS, NO. 5. [Japanese].
5. ORCHIDS, NO. 6. [Japanese].
6. [Japanese]. Small Book of Colored Pictures.
7. Alcock, John: AN ENTHUSIASM FOR ORCHIDS: SEX AND DECEPTION IN PLANT EVOLUTION. Oxford.
8. Bateman, James: THE ORCHIDACEAE OF MEXICO AND GUATEMALA. Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (limited edition reprint).
9. Burbidge, F. W.: COOL ORCHIDS AND HOW TO GROW THEM; WITH A DESCRIPTIVE LIST OF ALL THE BEST SPECIES IN CULTIVATION. Robert Hardwicke.
10. Burdett, Fred D. (ed. Percy J. King): THE ODYSSEY OF AN ORCHID HUNTER. Herbert Jenkins.
11. Christenson, Eric A.: PHALAENOPSIS: A MONOGRAPH. Timber Press.
12. Cribb, Philip: THE GENUS PAPHIOPEDILUM. Natural History Publications.
13. Cribb, Philip J. and Carlyle A. Luer, eds.: THESAURUS WOOLWARDIAE: ORCHIDS OF THE MARQUIS OF LOTHIAN. Missouri Botanical Gardens (bound in green leather).
14. Cribb, Phillip: THE FORGOTTEN ORCHIDS OF ALEXANDRE BRUN. New York: Grove Press.
15. Cullen, J[ames], ed.: THE ORCHID BOOK: A GUIDE TO THE IDENTIFICATION OF CULTIVATED ORCHID SPECIES. Cambridge University Press.
16. Darwin, Charles: THE VARIOUS CONTRIVANCES BY WHICH ORCHIDS ARE FERTILISED BY INSECTS. The University of Chicago Press.
17. Dressler, Robert L.: PHYLOGENY AND CLASSIFICATION OF THE ORCHID FAMILY. Cambridge University Press.
18. Erdmann, Duane J.: NOTES ON THE SUBGENUS BRACHYPETALUM OF THE GENUS PAPHIOPEDILUM. No publisher's info.
19. Escobar [Restrepo], Rodrigo, ed.: 7TH WORLD ORCHID CONFERENCE SOUVENEIR PROGRAM. No publisher's info.
20. Escobar R[estrepo], Rodrigo, ed. (photo. Jorge Mario Munera B.): NATIVE COLUMBIAN ORCHIDS. 5 volumes. Compania Litographica Nacional S. A.
21. Fitch, Charles Marden: ALL ABOUT ORCHIDS. Doubleday.
22. Fowlie, J[ack] A.: THE GENUS LYCASTE: ITS SPECIATION, DISTRIBUTION, LITERATURE, AND CULTIVATION - A MONOGRAPHIC REVISION. Day Printing Corp
23. Fowlie, J[ack] A. (illustr. Mrs. Rosalie Roth): THE BRAZILIAN BIFOLIATE CATTLEYAS AND THEIR COLOR VARIETIES. THEIR SPECIATION, DISTRIBUTION, LITERATURE, AND CULTIVATION - A MONOGRAPHIC REVISION. Day Printing Corporation
24. Freed, Hugo: ORCHIDS AND SERENDIPITY. Prentice-Hall.
25. Frowine, Steven A.: MINIATURE ORCHIDS. Timber Press.
26. Gerritsen, Mary E. and Ron Parsons: MASDEVALLIAS: GEMS OF THE ORCHID WORLD. Timber Press.
27. Gould, John: JOHN GOULD'S HUMMINGBIRDS. Wordsworth Editions Ltd (many pictures of orchids).
28. Grosvenor, Gilbert M., ed.: NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE, APRIL 1971 (VOL. 139, NO. 4.) National Geographic Society.
29. Grubb, Roy: SELECTED ORCHIDACEOUS PLANTS. Roy and Ann Grubb (limited edition w/ folio of prints).
30. Hansen, Eric: ORCHID FEVER: A HORTICULTURAL TALE OF LOVE, LUST, AND LUNACY. Pantheon Books.
31. Hermans, Johan and Clare: AN ANNOTATED CHECKLIST ON THE GENUS DRACULA. The Orchid Digest Corporation.
32. Holladay, Ken and Will[iam Ames] Rhodehamel: A DRACULA CULTURE GUIDE. The Pleurothallid Alliance.
33. Hunt, P[eter] Francis (illustr. Mary A. Grierson): ORCHIDACEAE. The Bourton Press (limited edition).
34. Hunt, P[eter] Francis and Mary Grierson: THE COUNTRY LIFE BOOK OF ORCHIDS. Country Life Books.
35. Jarosy, I. R., ed.: ORCHIDS. THE EMERALD SERIES, VOLUME 5. Oswald Wolff.
36. Kelleher, Jo (illustr. Gerard Brender a Brandis): INTRIGUING MASDEVALLIAS. HGH Publications.
37. Kramer, Jack: GROWING HYBRID ORCHIDS INDOORS. Universe Books.
38. Kramer, Jack (ed. Kathryn L. Arthurs): HOW TO GROW ORCHIDS. Lane Publishing.
39. Kramer, Jack (ed. Philip Edinger): HOW TO GROW ORCHIDS. Lane Books.
40. Kramer, Jack (illustr. Andrew R. Addison): GROWING ORCHIDS AT YOUR WINDOW. Hawthron Books.
41. Lindley, John: SERTUM ORCHIDACEUM. A WREATH OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL ORCHIDACEOUS FLOWERS. Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (limited edition reprint)..
42. Logan, Harry Briton: ORCHIDS YOU CAN GROW. Hawthorne Books.
43. Luer, Carlyle A.: ICONES PLEUROTHALLIDINARUM. 29 volumes. Missouri Botanical Gardens.
44. Luer, Carlyle A. (illustr. Stig Dalstrom): A TREASURE OF MASDEVALLIA: A MONOGRAPH OF THE GENUS MASDEVALLIA. 8 volumes unbound. Missouri Botanical Gardens.
45. Luer, Carlyle A. and W. Koniger (illustr. C[arlyle] A. Luer, H. Schildhauer, Anne Marie Trechslin): THESAURUS MASDEVALLIARUM: A MONOGRAPH OF THE GENUS MASDEVALLIA. 21 volumes unbound. Verlag Helga Koniger.
46. Luer, Carlyle and Rodrigo Escobar (illustr. Stig Dalstrom): THESAURUS DRACULARUM: A MONOGRAPH OF THE GENUS DRACULA. Missouri Botanical Gardens (bound in two volumes, green leather).
47. McClements. John, ed.: PLANTS ALIVE: THE MAGAZINE FOR PLANT PEOPLE, AUG. 1977. Plants, Inc.
48. McDonald, Elvin (illustr. Kathleen Bourke): THE COMPLETE BOOK OF GARDENING UNDER LIGHTS. Popular Library.
49. McQueen, Jim and Barbara: MINIATURE ORCHIDS. The Text Publishing Company.
50. Millar, Andree: ORCHIDS OF PAPUA NEW GUINEA. Australian National University Press.
51. Miner, Harriet Stewart: ORCHIDS, THE ROYAL FAMILY OF PLANTS, WITH ILLUSTRATIONS FROM NATURE. Lee and Shepard.
52. Miura, Jiro: [MINIATURE CATTLEYAS]. [Japanese].
53. Nelson, Charles and John Lyons: JOHN LYONS AND HIS ORCHID MANUAL Incl. facs. of ON THE MANAGEMENT OF ORCHIDACEOUS PLANTS, WITH A CATALOGUE OF THOSE IN THE COLLECTION OF J. C. LYONS, LADISTON. Boethius Press (extra limited edition).
54. Nicholls, W. H. (illustr. W. H. Nicholls): ORCHIDS OF AUSTRALIA DRAWN IN NATURAL COLOUR BY W. H. NICHOLLS WITH DESCRIPTIVE TEXT. Georgian House.
55. Noble, Mary: YOU CAN GROW ORCHIDS. Mary Noble.
56. Noble, Mary (illustr. Marion Ruff Sheehan): YOU CAN GROW CATTLEYA ORCHIDS. Mary Noble McQuerry.
57. Noble, Mary (illustr. Marion Ruff Sheehan): YOU CAN GROW PHALAENOPSIS ORCHIDS. Mary Noble.
58. Northen, Rebecca T[yson]: HOME ORCHID GROWING. D. Van Nostrand.
59. Northen, Rebecca Tyson: HOME ORCHID GROWING. Van Nostrand Reinhold.
60. Northen, Rebecca Tyson: MINIATURE ORCHIDS. Van Nostrand Reinhold.
61. Orchid Society of Southeast Asia: ORCHID GROWING IN THE TROPICS. Times Editions.
62. Orlean, Susan: THE ORCHID THIEF: A TRUE TALE OF BEAUTY AND OBSESSION. Random House.
63. Peterson, Richard, et al., eds.: AMERICAN ORCHID SOCIETY BULLETIN, VOLUME 46, NO. 1 - VOLUME 71, NO. 12. The American Orchid Society
64. Piers, Frank: ORCHIDS OF EAST AFRICA. J. Cramer.
65. Pridgeon, Alec M., et al., eds: GENERA ORCHIDACEARUM: VOLUME 3, ORCHIDOIDEAE (PART TWO) VANILLOIDEAE. Oxford University Press.
66. Reeve, T. M. and P. J. B. Woods: A REVISION OF DENDROBIUM SECTION OXYGLOSSUM (ORCHIDACEAE). HMSO.
67. Rhodehamel, William A[mes] et al., ed.: THE PLEUROTHALLID ALLIANCE NEWS: VOLUME I, NUMBER 1 - VOLUME XX, NUMBER 4 (JANUARY 1989 - WINTER 2008). The Pleurothallid Alliance.
68. Rhodehamel, William Ames (illustr. Carlyle A. Luer): A MASDEVALLIA CULTURE GUIDE. William Ames Rhodehamel
69. Rittershausen, Brian and Wilma: ORCHIDS AS INDOOR PLANTS. Blandford Press.
70. Rittershausen, Wilma and Brian: THE GARDENER'S GUIDE TO GROWING ORCHIDS. Timber Press.
71. Rittershausen, Wilma, ed.: THE ORCHID REVIEW: VOL. 102, NO. 1196 - VOL. 104, NO. 1212. The Royal Horticultural Society.
72. Roberts, June Carver: BORN IN THE SPRING: A COLLECTION OF SPRING WILDFLOWERS. Ohio University Press.
73. Sheehan, Tom and Marion: AN ILLUSTRATED SURVEY OF ORCHID GENERA. Timber Press.
74. Shuttleworth, Floyd S[tephen], et al. (illustr. Elmer W. Smith): ORCHIDS. Golden Press.
75. Skelsey, Alice: ORCHIDS. Time-Life Books.
76. Stewart, J[oyce] (illustr. E. F. Hennessy): ORCHIDS OF AFRICA: A SELECT REVIEW. Houghton Mifflin.
77. Stewart, Joyce, et al.: WILD ORCHIDS OF SOUTHERN AFRICA. Macmillan South Africa.
78. Summerhayes, V. S.: WILD ORCHIDS OF BRITAIN WITH A KEY TO THE SPECIES. Collins.
79. Taylor, Peter: ORCHIDS. Crescent Books.
80. Thoerle, Lisa (illustr. Lynn O'Shaughnessy): MASDEVALLIA AND AFFILIATES. The Pleurothallid Alliance.
81. Various Authors: Orchid Culture Pamphlets. Various Publishers (bound in yellow cloth).
82. Wilshaw, H. S.: ORCHID STAMP COLLECTING, VOL. I 1935-1981. H. S. Wilshaw.
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01-18-2008, 05:07 PM
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Hi,
I got in the mail, Masdevallias, gems of the orchid world. Very beautiful book. Sue, if you are reading this, I would get it. I know you like them!
I also got Bulbophyllums and their allies, a growers guide. Very nice book!
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Their hungry thirsty roots?"
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03-24-2008, 01:37 PM
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I just picked up a new book while waiting for my husband to go through his Lowe's ritual
It's:
Miracle-Gro Complete Guide To Orchids...and it is phenomenal!!!
They go through descriptions of temps, lighting, potting materials, mountings, pests, diseases, propogation, how to choose a plant and what to look for specifically, orchid name abbreviations and then has an entire encyclopedic section of orchids with pictures and descriptions for growing each of them.
I'm sure I haven't listed everything the book has...there's SO much!
I'm thrilled with this one!
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05-25-2008, 11:53 PM
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Of real interest to me over the years has been Orchid Species Culture: Pescatorea, Phaius, Phalaenopsis, Philodota, Phragmipedium, Pleione, by Margaret L. Baker and Charles O. Baker.This book was published in 1991 by Timber Press, ISBN 0-88192-189-0.
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05-26-2008, 12:30 AM
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Anyone out there collect antique orchid books?( pre 1920 or so).?
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