Author of 'Camp Notes,' 'Legends of My Bungalow,' 'About Orchids, A Chat,' etc, etc, etc. This work is not of the class which needs a Preface. But to the Editors of the _Pall Mall Gazette_, _Sunday Times_, _Black and White_, _Chambers's Journal_, _Wide Wide World_, and _Badminton Magazine_ I am indebted for license to republish my stories of Orchid-seeking, and it is pleasant to acknowledge their courtesy. If those tales amuse the general reader, I trust that other portions of the work will be found not uninteresting, nor even unprofitable, by orchid-growers. Plain descriptions of scarce species and varieties are not readily accessible. A mere list of the hybrids in the Woodlands collection…
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