Author: Ashmore RussanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 418
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The Orchid Seekers in Borneo
Author: Ashmore RussanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 418
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Orchid
Author: Jim EndersbyPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022637632X
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
Introduction: imagining orchids -- Censored origins -- The lesbian boy -- The uses of orchids -- Red book, black flower -- Utopian botany -- The signature of all things -- The name of the orchid -- Making a family -- A second Adam -- Artificial to natural -- Myths of orchids -- Orchidmania -- The blooming aristocracy -- Orchis bank -- Every trifling detail -- Beautiful contrivances -- The scramble for orchids -- Lost orchids -- Cannibal tales -- Savage orchids -- Long purples and a forked radish -- Queer flowers -- Creation and consolation -- Sexy orchids -- Boy's own orchids -- Manly orchids -- Frail orchids -- Deceptive orchids -- Orchids in orbit -- Endangered orchids -- Fragile specialists -- The spider orchids of Sussex -- Conclusion: an orchid's-eye view?
A Check-list of the Orchids of Borneo
Author: Jeffrey J. WoodPublisher: Royal Botanic Gardens Kew
ISBN:
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
A listing of all the known species of orchids occurringin the whole island of Borneo, with accepted name,place, author of publication, and notes on habitat anddistribution.
Longman's Magazine
Author: The Literary World
Author: Gardeners' Chronicle of America
Author: Catalogue of the Library of the Royal Colonial Institute
Author: Royal Commonwealth Society. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Commonwealth countries
Languages : en
Pages : 718
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