The few existing copies command princely sums at auction. Rare when it was first published, few orchid lovers have had an opportunity to gaze upon the beauty contained within its pages. Its appearance was hailed with great satisfaction in horticultural circles throughout the world, and it numbers among its subscribers nearly all lovers of Orchids and many of our leading and most influential horticulturalists." Originally, Warner’s Orchid Album was published by subscription to an elite cadre of English society.
The Gardener’s Chronicle described the Orchid Album as a “.magnum opus.which was projected with the idea of supplying a demand for illustrations of Orchidaceous plants, with botanical descriptions of the plants figured and notes on their cultivation. The Orchid Album was a originally published by the collaboration of two of the most influential orchid celebrities of the 19th Century Robert Warner and Benjamin S. Forty-seven beautiful orchid species and hybrids are lavishly illustrated in glorious, full-color botanical illustrations by legendary artists John Nugent Fitch. First published in 1882, the first volume of Warner’s Orchid Album was avidly sought after by the upper crust of English orchid growers. Feed your love of orchids with one of the classic orchid growing books of all time. This book may not cure Orchidomania.but who wants to be cured. Orchids were all the rage then.and still are today. Shows and exhibitions were dedicated to the intriguingly exotic and seductive orchid. They went to any length to acquire (by any means) the best and most magnificent specimens available.
They obsessed about their care and culture. Every notable royal and gentleman capitalist grew orchids. “Hailed with great satisfaction in horticultural circles throughout the world.” - Gardener’s Chronicle Orchidomania: “An obsession with orchids A pleasure gained from raising or collecting orchids.” Do you have Orchidomania? Nineteenth century England was obsessed with orchids.
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