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title: A History of the Orchid author: Reinikka, Merle A.; Romero, Gustavo A. publisher: Timber Press, Inc. isbn10 | asin: 0881923257 print isbn13: 9780881923254 ebook isbn13: 9780585340012 language: English Orchid culture--History, Orchids, Plant subject collectors--Biography, Botanists-- Biography. publication date: 1995 lcc: SB409.R37 1995eb ddc: 635.9/3415/09 Orchid culture--History, Orchids, Plant subject: collectors--Biography, Botanists-- Biography. Page i A History of the Orchid Page ii Old print illustrating two varieties of Cattleya labiata. Page iii A History of the Orchid By Merle A. Reinikka With a Nomenclatural Update by Gustavo A. Romero Page iv Photograph credits: courtesy of American Orchid Society, Inc., pp. 4, 7, 14, 19, 21, 22, 26, 27, 32, 42, 51, 54, 59, 71, 72, 87, 89, 124, 139, 153, 156, 171, 191, 196, 206, 212, 215, 221, 228, 255, 272, 287, 293, 297, 302; Flora Malesiana Foundation, pp. 130, 141, 145; Montreal Botanical Gardens, pp. 202, 248; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, p. 122; Royal Horticultural Society, London, pp. 149, 169, 174; Royal Swedish Academy of Science, p. 113; and Sidney Botanic Library, p. 236. Frontispiece courtesy of George Rosner; photographs on p. 28 by Alan Kapuler, courtesy of American Orchid Society, Inc.; on p. 226 courtesy of Miss Eileen Low; and on p. 260 courtesy of David Sander. Photographs on p. 9 from Theatrum Botanicum by John Parkinson; on p. 116 from The Botanical Explorers of New Zealand by Rewa Glenn; on p. 127 from Journal of Botany; on pp. 136, 184, 199, 211, 246, 279 from Curtis's Botanical MagazineDedications and Portraits; on p. 160 from British Botanists by John Gilmour; on p. 164 from Paxton and the Bachelor Duke by Violet R. Markham; on p. 179 from The Garden; on p. 189 drawn from a photographic portrait in Ogrodnictwo; on p. 250 from La Tribune Horticole; on pp. 193, 204, 219, 223, 230 courtesy of Gardeners' Chronicle; and on p. 275 courtesy of Orchid Review. Copyright © 1995 by Timber Press, Inc. First published in 1972 by University of Miami Press Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Reinikka, Merle A. A history of the orchid / by Merle A. Reinikka ; with a nomenclatural update by Gustavo A. Romero. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-88192-325-7 1. Orchid cultureHistory. 2. Orchids. 3. Plant collectorsBiogra- phy. 4. BotanistsBiography. I. Romero, Gustavo A., 1955 . II. Title. SB409.R37 1995 635.9'3415'09dc20 95-10784 CIP Timber Press, Inc. 133 S.W. Second Avenue, Suite 450 Portland, Oregon 97204, U.S.A. Printed in Hong Kong Page v CONTENTS Illustrations viii Foreword xi By Rebecca T. Northen Acknowledgments xiii Introduction xvii Part I Historical Development The Emergence of Orchids as Botanical Entities 3 Expanded Interest and Introductions 11 Classification 40 Cultivation and the Methods Employed 50 The Development of an Industry 61 Hybridization 76 Scientific Application 84 Chronological Guide to Descriptive and Taxonomic 97 Orchid Literature Part II Makers of Orchid History Introduction 111 Carl von Linné 113 Joseph Banks 116 Franz Bauer 122 Page vi Olof Swartz 127 Robert Brown 130 William George Spencer Cavendish 136 Hugh Cuming 141 Karl Ludwig Blume 145 Robert Wight 149 John Lindley 153 George Bentham 160 Joseph Paxton 164 George Ure Skinner 169 Friedrich Martin Josef Welwitsch 174 Charles Robert Darwin 179 James Bateman 184 Karl Theodore Hartweg 187 Josef Ritter von Rawicz Warszewicz 189 John Gibson 193 John Dominy 196 Joseph Dalton Hooker 199 Jean Linden 204 Thomas Lobb 208 Charles Samuel Pollock Parish 211 Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach 215 Benedict Roezl 219 Benjamin Samuel Williams 223 Hugh Low 226 Ferdinand Jacob Heinrich Mueller 230 Gustave Wallis 234 Robert David Fitzgerald 236 Harry Bolus 241 John Seden 244 Harry James Veitch 246 Alfred Celestin Cogniaux 250 William Boxall 253 Ernst Hugo Heinrich Pfitzer 255 Frederick William Burbidge 258 Henry Frederick Conrad Sander 260
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