THE
ORCHID ALBUM,
COMPRISING
COLOURED FIGURES AND DESCRIPTIONS
OF
NEW, RARE, AND BEAUTIFUL
ORCHIDACEOUS PLANTS.
CONDUCTED BY
ROBERT WARNER, F.L.S., F.R.H.S.,
Author of SELECT ORCHIDACEOUS PLANTS,
AND
BENJAMIN SAMUEL WILLIAMS, F.L.S., F.R.H.S.,
Author of the ORCHID-GROWERS’ MANUAL, etc.
The Botanical Descriptions by THOMAS MOORE, F.L.S., F.R.H.S.,
CURATOR of the CHELSEA BOTANIC GARDENS.
THE COLOURED FIGURES BY JOHN NUGENT FITCH, F.L.S.
VOLUME I.
LONDON:
Published by B. S. Williams,
AT THE
VICTORIA AND PARADISE NURSERIES, UPPER HOLLOWAY, N.
MDCCCLXXXII.
DEDICATED
BY SPECIAL PERMISSION
TO
H.R.H. The Princess of Wales,
BY
HER ROYAL HIGHNESS’
Very obedient and humble Servants,
ROBERT WARNER,
BENJAMIN S. WILLIAMS.
PREFACE.
The great advances which have been made within the last few years in theintroduction and the cultivation of Exotic Orchids, have suggested the desirabilityof devoting a monthly publication to the illustration of the best forms of thesesingular and captivating aristocratic plants, and also to the explanation of the mostsuccessful methods of growing them, its object being to supply such informationconcerning them as the Orchid Grower may be likely to find useful in directinghis purchases, and in suggesting the various points of discreet and masterlymanagement. Moreover, we have found that figures of the better varieties ofOrchids are much in request.
These considerations have induced us to commence the publication of theOrchid Album, in the confident expectation that we shall meet with sufficientsupport and encouragement to enable us to continue it, and, so far as our experiencegoes, we have no reason to feel disappointed, for we find that Orchid growers, bothamateur and professional, are taking a marked interest not only in the plates butalso in the cultural notes.
In regard to the subjects for illustration, we hope in due course to figure notonly the typical form of all the more popular and interesting species, but also theleading varieties, when they prove sufficiently distinct and meritorious. It is forthese that we anticipate our subscribers and readers will most anxiously look.
Being of Royal Quarto size, the pages of the Album are sufficiently large toenable the artist to produce ample and intelligible portraits of the plants withouttheir becoming cumbersome; and, as they will be drawn and coloured in the beststyle, we confidently hope they w