March 20th, 2010 The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Orchids
Product Description
Our best single book on orchids is a perennial bestseller and an outstanding value at the price. Edited by an eminent orchidist, it is aimed at a broad audience, from the flower lover with a casual interest in orchids to the committed enthusiast and professional. It fully describes and beautifully illustrates more than 1100 species and hybrids commonly in cultivation.
The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Orchids
March 20th, 2010 at 10:41 pm
my familly is an orchid farm cutflower (dendrobium). and I like an orchids. now I study about orchids. I have a many orchids but I don’t it name. I want it name and I study it.
Rating: 3 / 5
March 21st, 2010 at 12:42 am
This isn’t really an encyclopaedia. Rather, it’s a meaningless coffee table book. True, 1100 orchid species are illustrated and identified, but so what? The presentations are extremely short, so short that Wikipedia would consider them stubs, and the photos are plain boring. Usually, we only get a close up of one particular flower! Nor are common names included, not even of species which have established English names (such as the Lady’s Slipper orchid). If you own a barbershop or run a health clinic, this book may be good for the waiting room, but to actually *read* it is pointless. Instead, try to find books about a specific geographical region, or a specific group of orchids. “The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Orchids” will just annoy you and make you $30 poorer.
Rating: 2 / 5
March 21st, 2010 at 2:34 am
Thanks Alec! Enjoyed seeing such a comprehensive (and affordable) book. Not a fluff book suitable only for the first-time orchid grower, or a coffee table book, useful only for the pictures. Definitely a keeper, and constant reference.
Remember the first AOS days in the Cambridge MA house and Ken Peterson circa 1984? Yup, same Lee Sullivan. Hope all is well!
Rating: 5 / 5
March 21st, 2010 at 4:10 am
If you think it’s time for a new and improved, still affordable edition of this work, please let Timber Press know!
Rating: 5 / 5
March 21st, 2010 at 4:21 am
I never received the book from Amazon. My order was cancelled after I had paid for it. I was refunded. I bought it from someone else and its great. Really good pictures and informative.
Rating: 5 / 5