About Orchids

Book Excerpt: horticulture.Among others which I recollect was an idea of growing bulbs the yearround! No trouble with bulbs! you just plant them and they do theirduty. A patient friend at Kew made me a list of genera and specieswhich, if all went well, should flower in succession. But there was awoeful gap about midsummer--just the time when gardens ought to bebrightest. Still, I resolved to carry out the scheme, so far as it went,and forwarded my list to Covent Garden for an estimate of th...