| Size: 191 pages |
Northen, Rebecca Tyson, Miniature Orchids and How to Grow Them, Dover Publications, Inc., New York, 1996. |
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J This book is invaluable for all the people who have limited growing space for their orchids and want to specialize in miniature orchid plants. Rebecca Northen lists all common and a lot of unusual orchid species whose vegetative growth tops out at 6 inches. |
| L Well, this book looks old. There are only very few color pictures in the middle of the book, many entries aren't even illustrated by a black-and-white one, and the cultivation hints are few. But it still is a good place to start learning about which orchid species are really small... |
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| Contents: | |
| Acknowledgments | |
| Miniature Orchids: An Introduction | |
| Orchids In the Wild Environment | |
| The Basics of Cultivation | |
| Encyclopedia of Representative Species | |
| Color Plates | |
| Encyclopedia of Representative Species Continued | |
| Selected References | |
| Appendix: Orchid Pest Control | |
| Index |