Excerpt from The Orchid-Grower's Manual: Containing a Brief Description of Upwards of Two Hundred and Sixty Orchidaceous Plants, Together With Notices of Their Times of Flowering and Most Approved Modes of TreatmentThe nature and the habits of Orchidaceous plants are now better? Known than they were some few years ago, and we have become acquainted with the conditions of their growth in the countries where they are indigenous. There they are exposed to a dry season, during which they are at rest.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.