THE WOODLANDS ORCHIDS

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THE WOODLANDS ORCHIDS

DESCRIBED AND ILLUSTRATED

WITH STORIES OF ORCHID-COLLECTING

BY

FREDERICK BOYLE

Author of
‘Camp Notes,’ ‘Legends of My Bungalow,’ ‘About Orchids, A Chat,’ etc, etc, etc.

COLOURED PLATES BY J. L. MACFARLANE, F.R.H.S.

London
MACMILLAN AND CO., Limited
NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1901

All rights reserved

This work is not of the class which needs a Preface. But to the Editors ofthe Pall Mall Gazette, Sunday Times, Black and White, Chambers’sJournal, Wide Wide World, and Badminton Magazine I am indebted forlicense to republish my stories of Orchid-seeking, and it is pleasant toacknowledge their courtesy. If those tales amuse the general reader, Itrust that other portions of the work will be found not uninteresting, noreven unprofitable, by orchid-growers. Plain descriptions of scarce speciesand varieties are not readily accessible. A mere list of the hybrids inthe Woodlands collection would be found useful, pending the issue of thatinternational catalogue which must be undertaken shortly; but beyond thisI have noted the peculiarities of colour and form in such of the progenyas seemed most curious. No doubt many experts will wish that I haddescribed some which are passed over and omitted some described—withoutagreeing among themselves in either case perhaps. But I have done my best.

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