The Magic Of Orchids
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I thank you for reminding your readers, by reference to my humble work,
that the delight of growing orchids can be enjoyed by persons of modest means.
To spread that knowledge is my contribution to
philanthropy, and I make bold to say that it ranks as high as some which
are commended from pulpits and platforms.
For your leader-writer is
inexact, though complimentary, in assuming that any ’special genius’
enables me to cultivate orchids without more expense than other
greenhouse plants entail, or even without a gardener.
I am happy to know that scores of worthy gentlemen–ladies too–not more gifted than their
neighbours in any sense, find no greater difficulty. If the pleasure of
one of these be due to any writings of mine, I have wrought some good in
my generation.”
With the same hope I have collected those writings, dispersed and buried
more or less in periodicals. The articles in this volume are
collected–with permission which I gratefully acknowledge–from.
The Standard,Saturday Review,St. James’s Gazette,National Review,
and Longman’s Magazine. With some pride I discover, on reading them
again, that hardly a statement needs correction, for they contain many
statements, and some were published years ago.
But in this, as in other lore, a student still gathers facts. The essays have been brought up to
date by additions–in especial that upon “Hybridizing,” a theme which
has not interested the great public hitherto, simply because the great
public knows nothing about it.
There is not, in fact, so far as I am aware, any general record of the amazing and delightful achievements
which have been made therein of late years. It does not fall within my
province to frame such a record. But at least any person who reads this
unscientific account, not daunted by the title, will understand the
fascination of the study.