# Orchids

Author: O'Brien, James, 1842-1930

Genre: Category: How To ...

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33593

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## Summary

The first tropical Orchid to flower in the British Isles appears to have been _Bletia verecunda_ (_Helleborine americana_), figured in _Historia Plantorum Rariorum, 1728-1735_. It bloomed in 1732 on a plant received by Peter Collinson from the Bahamas in the previous year. In succession to this appeared _Cypripedium spectabile_ and one or two other North American Cypripediums; _Vanilla aromatica_, and a few other species, chiefly terrestrial Orchids. In 1789 Aiton's _Hortus Kewensis_ enumerated fifteen species of exotic Orchids as being in cultivation at Kew, the tropical species being _Bletia verecunda_, _Epidendrum fragrans_, _Epidendrum cochleatum_, and _Phaius grandifolius_. At the en...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER XX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/orchids-33593/chapters/20/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/orchids-33593/chapters/19/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/orchids-33593/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/orchids-33593/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/orchids-33593/chapters/21/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/orchids-33593/chapters/16/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/orchids-33593/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/orchids-33593/chapters/12/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/orchids-33593/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/orchids-33593/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/orchids-33593/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/orchids-33593/chapters/14/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/orchids-33593/chapters/15/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/orchids-33593/chapters/13/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/orchids-33593/chapters/18/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/orchids-33593/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/orchids-33593/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/orchids-33593/chapters/17/index.md)
- [CHAPTER X](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/orchids-33593/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/orchids-33593/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/orchids-33593/chapters/3/index.md)