_Present-Day Gardening_

List of Volumes in the Series.

1. SWEET PEAS. By HORACE J. WRIGHT, late Secretary and Chairman of the National Sweet Pea Society. With Chapter on "Sweet Peas for Exhibition" by THOS. STEVENSON.

2. PANSIES, VIOLAS, AND VIOLETS. By WILLIAM CUTHBERTSON, J.P., and R. HOOPER PEARSON.

3. ROOT AND STEM VEGETABLES. By ALEXANDER DEAN, V.M.H., Chairman of the National Vegetable Society.

4. DAFFODILS. By the Rev. J. JACOB, Secretary of the Midland Daffodil Society, with Preface by the Rev. W. WILKS, M.A., Secretary of the Royal Horticultural Society.

5. ORCHIDS. By JAMES O'BRIEN, V.M.H., Secretary of the Orchid Committee of the Royal Horticultural Society.

6. CARNATIONS AND PINKS. By T. H. COOK, Head Gardener to Queen Alexandra at Sandringham; JAMES DOUGLAS, V.M.H.; and J. F. M'LEOD, Head Gardener to Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan.

7. RHODODENDRONS AND AZALEAS. (_The first popular volume published on this subject._) By WILLIAM WATSON, A.L.S., Curator of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, with Preface by Sir FRED. W. MOORE, M.A., A.L.S., V.M.H.

8. LILIES. By A. GROVE, F.L.S., with Preface by H. J. ELWES, F.R.S.

9. APPLES AND PEARS. By GEORGE BUNYARD, V.M.H., Chairman of Fruit and Vegetable Committee of Royal Horticultural Society.

10. ROSES. By H. R. DARLINGTON, Vice-President of National Rose Society. (Double volume.)

11. IRISES. By W. RICKATSON DYKES, M.A., L.-es-L. With Preface by PROFESSOR I. BAYLEY BALFOUR, D.SC., F.R.S., &c.

12. ANNUALS, HARDY AND HALF-HARDY. By C. H. CURTIS, Hon. Sec. of the National Sweet Pea Society.

13. CHRYSANTHEMUMS. By THOMAS STEVENSON, with chapters by C. HARMAN PAYNE and CHARLES E. SHEA.

14. TULIPS. By the Rev. J. JACOB.

15. THE ROCK GARDEN. By REGINALD FARRER, Author of "Among the Hills," "My Rock Garden," "In a Yorkshire Garden," &c.

These will be followed by volumes on ~Dahlias~, ~Climbers~, ~Trees and Shrubs~, ~Paeonies~, ~Primulas~, ~Window Gardens~, ~Cucumbers~, ~Melons~, ~Bedding Plants~, ~Hardy Herbaceous Plants~, ~Ferns~, ~Tomatoes~, ~Bulbous Plants~, ~Peaches and Nectarines~, ~Vines~, ~Stove and Greenhouse Plants~, ~&c.~

[Illustration: PLATE I (_Frontispiece_)

CYPRIPEDIUM INSIGNE SANDERAE]

Table of contents (by pages)

• 1: Orchids by James O'Brien
• 2: Seedling Orchids are raised as freely as seedling Fuchsias
• 3: Brasso cattleya digbyano mossiae
• 4: The tropical species being Bletia verecunda
• 5: Calanthe x Dominyi obtained from a cross between C
• 6: The whole of the genus is known as Cypripedium
• 7: Eucharis grandiflora and other species of Eucharis
• 8: And trellises used for the paths
• 9: And inspect the appliances and their arrangement
• 10: And other deciduous Dendrobiums are grown
• 11: In such an intermediate house the Odontoglossums
• 12: Plants requiring it should be repotted
• 13: And other scandent Angraecums of similar growth
• 14: In fastening Orchids on rafts or blocks
• 15: Masdevallias have no developed pseudo bulbs
• 16: Pseudo bulbous Orchids with progressive rhizomes
• 17: Such as watering Orchids for the first time after repotting
• 18: As they represent the highest development of the epiphyte
• 19: And other deciduous Dendrobiums
• 20: Or in the decayed and blackened pseudo bulbs of Cattleyas
• 21: The Cattleya Fly Isosoma orchidearum
• 22: Should be poured down a drain outside the Orchid house
• 23: The pretty scarlet Sophronitis grandiflora
• 24: Large quantities of the large flowered Cattleyas
• 25: The Maidenhair Fern especially
• 26: Epiphytal Orchids with pseudo bulbs
• 27: Those who are collecting Orchids should
• 28: Maxillaria picta and other Maxillarias
• 29: Such for instance as Laelias and Cattleyas
• 30: The seed capsule should be supported by ties
• 31: Or other moisture holding substance
• 32: Some Osmunda fibre or other Orchid potting material
• 33: Advisable to have on the seedling house
• 34: Osmunda fibre and Polypodium fibre in equal proportions
• 35: All the species of Aerides may be grown in pots
• 36: Africana is not only most commonly grown
• 37: Brassavolas may be grown with the Cattleyas
• 38: Eburneum is illustrated in Plate VI
• 39: When repotted soon after the flowering season
• 40: Fragrant epiphytal Orchids from South America
• 41: The Miltonias are compact growing South American epiphytes
• 42: Crispum and its section of Odontoglossum
• 43: The cultivation is similar to Aerides
• 44: The species of Sobralia are strong growing
• 45: Botanically they are placed under Zygopetalum
• 46: Crossing readily with Cattleya and Laelia
• 47: Cymbidiums for the conservatory
• 48: 108Hybridising and raising seedlings
• 49: 103Plant houses adapted for Orchids
• 50: 35Watering terrestrial species