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Cattleya dowiana aurea, from Reichenbachia Series I Volume I Plate 5.. Reichenbachia: Orchids Illustrated and Described is a four-volume 19th-century text created by German-born orchidologist Frederick Sander which features life-size illustrations and descriptions of nearly two hundred orchids with text in English, French, and German.
John Nugent Fitch (24 October 1840 – 11 January 1927) was a British botanical illustrator and lithographer, [1] best known for his contribution of 528 plates to The Orchid Album, [2] a landmark work of eleven volumes published between 1872 and 1897.
The book inspired him to go on his orchid safaris throughout the state, eventually finding and photographing all 98 remaining native orchid species out of the roughly 110 native to Florida. The ...
John Day (1824–1888) was an English orchid-grower and collector, and is noted for producing some 4000 illustrations of orchid species in 53 scrapbooks over a period of 15 years. These scrapbooks were donated to The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew in 1902 by his sister, Emma Wolstenholme. [ 1 ]
The Orchid Review was founded by Robert Allen Rolfe who single-handedly produced and edited 28 volumes. [2] The first monthly issue appeared on 1 January 1893. Rolfe worked in the orchid herbarium at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew [3] but there was no mention in the periodical of his position there and his name never appeared on the title page.
The orchid family is one of the largest flowering plant families in the world. Orchids can be found on every continent except Antarctica, from the steamy jungles of Asia to the dry deserts of ...
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The Orchid Album, Comprising Coloured Figures and Descriptions of New, Rare, and Beautiful Orchidaceous Plants, known as The Orchid Album, is a horticultural work by Robert Warner and Benjamin Samuel Williams of eleven volumes published between 1872 and 1897 and illustrated by John Nugent Fitch and by Gertrude Hamilton. [1] [2]