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New York: Munn & Company, 1909. Magazine. Fair. Paperback. First Edition. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Pages 121-172 plus xxiv pages of great vintage ads. Many great black and white photos. Features: The House of Walter Robb Wilder, Esq., at Bronxville, NY - Artistic Expression of the Small Country House; The Home of Mr. Wissel at Forest Hills, Long Island; The Home of Mr. Stone at Milton, MA; The Home of Mr. Tingue; Home built for Mr. Garrett at Bronxville, NY; Plumbing for a Small Country House - article with great photos; The Making of an Iris Garden at Chestnut Hill, PA; Decorative Features in the Small Home; A Group of Model Motor Houses for the Small Country Place - with great photos; Mome-Made Novelties for the Country Home; Evolution of the Small House Plan; A Formal Garden and Pergola Designed by an Amateur; Furniture for the Small Home; The Use of Concrete in the Building of the Small Country Home - article with photo of the home of Mrs. Julia E. White of Montclair, NJ, Dr.… Read More

Cambridge, MA, USA: The American Orchid Society, Inc., 1957. Book. Good. Paperback. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Features include: The Cultivation of Stanhopea and Its Allies; Seedling Mist Tray; The Green-Thumb Room; Bifoliate Cattleya-Type Lip I - Lineograph Study (Pt VII); Collectors' Item: Kefersteinia tolimensis Schlechter; Book Review "The Complete Book of Greenhouse Gardening" by Henry and Rebecca Northen; In Pursuit of Orchids; and Beginners' Handbook: Fascinating Botanicals for the Hobbyist. Light wear. Unmarked. A clean copy..

Cambridge, MA, USA: The American Orchid Society, Inc., 1957. Book. Good. Paperback. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Features include: Their Fate is in Your Hands; Development of a System of Orchid Classification: Understanding the Orchid Family (Pt II); Studies in Oncidium: Oncidium papilio and Its Allies - (Pt II); Collectors' Item: Stanhopea ecornuta Lemaire; and Beginners' Handbook: Pollination and Fertilization in Orchids. Light wear. Unmarked. A clean copy..

Cambridge, MA, USA: The American Orchid Society, Inc., 1959. Book. Good. Paperback. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Features include: Vacationing with Orchids; Fiber Pots for Orchids; Arundina graminifolia, the Bamboo Orchid; Orchids - Nature's Masterpiece; A Washing Machine and Cymbidiums; The New Fir Bark Mixtures; Orchids as Pot Plants; Book Review "The Orchids: A Scientific Survey" by Dr. Carl L. Withner; Diary of Our First Greenhouse (Pt II); Growing Orchids in the Home (Pt III): A Porch is My Greenhouse; Collectors' Item: Two Handsome Ecuadorean Maxillarias; and Liquid Fertilizer for Orchids in Fir Bark. Light wear. Small notations in pen on Front/Back cover. A clean copy..

Cambridge, MA, USA: The American Orchid Society, Inc., 1955. Book. Good. Paperback. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Features include: Orchids in Newfoundland; Beginners' Handbook: General Principles of Orchid Culture; Cycnoches aureum - Collectors' Items; Light Versus Heat in the Small Greenhouse; Notes on Cymbidium Culture: Care of Flowering Plants - II; Lowering Cost of Production of Cattleyas and Where Are We Going in Judging? Light wear. Unmarked. A clean copy..

Cambridge, MA, USA: The American Orchid Society, Inc., 1955. Book. Good. Paperback. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Features include: A New Growing Medium for Orchids; Primary Classification in the Orchidaceae; Specimen Portias; Collectors' Item: Three Forms of Brassia longissima; Judging Odontoglossums; and Beginners' Handbook: Growing Your Orchids from Seed. Includes the index to Vol. 24 (12 issues). Light wear. Unmarked. A clean copy..

Cambridge, MA, USA: The American Orchid Society, Inc., 1959. Book. Fair. Paperback. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Features include: Orchid Classics: Story of Oncidium splendidum; Notes on Orchid Cultivation for Trinidad Conditions; New Trends in Cymbidium Breeding; Plant Quarantine Regulations Governing the Importation of Orchid Plants; Orchids Growing in Hawaii; Collectors' Item: Batemannia yauaperiensis; Orchids Growing in Florida; Book Review "Orchids for Everyone" by O. Eigeldinger; Oncidium serratum and Orchids in England: An Amateur's Collection (Pt II). Light wear. Some pages with writing on them. Back cover with writing and discoloration. A sound copy..

Cambridge, MA, USA: The American Orchid Society, Inc., 1959. Book. Fair. Paperback. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Features include: Miniature-flowered Cymbidiums; Indigenous Orchids of South Africa; Habenarias in Japan; Dig Those Crazy Orchids; Outstanding Cymbidiums in Southern California; Book Review "Orchids of East Africa" by Frank Piers; Cymbidiums from Pod to Pot; Pot Hangers from Coat Hangers; and Collectors' Item: Zygostates lunata. Light wear. Marks in ink - pages 800 to 806. A sound copy..

Cambridge, MA, USA: The American Orchid Society, Inc., 1956. Book. Good. Paperback. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Features include: Orchid Hunting - A Perilous Game; The Orchids of the Island of Grenada, British West Indies; A Method for Growing Phalaenopsis; Collectors' Item: Anoectochilus sikkimensis; Bulbophyllum lobbii; and Beginners' Handbook: The Bifoliate Cattleyas. Light wear. Unmarked. A clean copy..

Cambridge, MA, USA: The American Orchid Society, Inc., 1960. Book. Fair. Paperback. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Features include: Cymbidiums - More About Miniatures; Outstanding Cymbidiums of 1960; Growing Cymbidiums in the Northwest; Orchids of India (Pt 2): Cymbidium suavissimum; A Comparison of Cytological Groups of Cymbidium Hybrids; Orchid Growing in Chieng-Mai; Can We Have Flower Control in Cymbidiums?; Decontamination of Seed Flasks; Some Thoughts on Growing Miniature Cymbidiums; Orchid Raid to Ecuador; Book Review " The Orchids of Thailand, A Preliminary List" by Gunnar Seidenfaden and Tem Smitinand; The 1960 Cymbidium Season in England; and Ecology Notes: Oncidium pulchellum. Little Wear. Front cover soiled. A sound copy..

Cambridge, MA, USA: The American Orchid Society, Inc., 1957. Book. Fair. Paperback. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Features include: Fertility and Sterility in Vanda; Pentaploid Cattleya Hybrids and Their Successful Breeding; Oncidiums for the Amateur; Hilo - Vanda Paradise; and Gibberellins. Above-average wear. Soiling due to water damage throughout. A rough but worthy copy..

Cambridge, MA, USA: The American Orchid Society, Inc., 1963. Book. Good. Paperback. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Features include: Orchids of Nepal - Three Coelogynes; Producing Cattleyas for the Cut-Market Trade; An Orchid of Lake Mead National Recreational Area; Instant Media for Orchid Seed Germination; A Note on Schomburgkia Brysiana; The Genus Coelogyne; Getting Along with the Humidity; Hobbyists' Round-Up: Greenhouse Watering System; How to Grow Orchids (Pt 2): A Greenhouse for your Orchids; and Collectors' Item: Coelia triptera and Bothriochilus macrostachyus. Little Wear. Unmarked. A clean copy..

Cambridge, MA, USA: The American Orchid Society, Inc., 1957. Book. Good. Paperback. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Features include: How to Build a Steel and Fiberglas Greenhouse - Yourself!; Bifoliate Cattleya-Type Lip II - Lineograph Study (Pt VII); Book Review "Orchids for Home and Garden" by T.A. Fennell, Jr.; Studies in Oncidium: Chromosome Numbers in Oncidium and Allied Genera - (Pt III); and Beginners' Handbook: Cell Growth and Orchid Genetics. Light wear. Unmarked. A clean copy..

Cambridge, MA, USA: The American Orchid Society, Inc., 1959. Book. Good. Paperback. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Features include: Development of Phalaenopsis in Hawaii; The Orchidist in Southern Mexico (Pt I): The Nizanda "Rock Gardens" of Oaxaca; Vandas in Central Florida; How Does Your Greenhouse Grow?; Collectors' Item: Rodriguezia rigida; Growing Orchids in the Home (Pt VI): Orchids on a Windowsill in Wales; Oncidium Cavenlur; Evolutionary Trends in the Sarcanthine Orchids; Pleiones, Orchids for Everyone; Cryptocentrum jamesonii, a Rare Ecuadorian Orchid; How Do Your Orchids Grow?; and Orchid Classics (Pt V): On the Identity of Three Supposed Genera of Orchideous Epiphytes. Light wear. Unmarked. A clean copy..

Cambridge, MA, USA: The American Orchid Society, Inc., 1955. Book. Good. Paperback. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Features include: Guatemalan Interlude; Hawaiian Leis and Corsages; What is a Good Cattleya?; Collectors' Item: Mormodes igneum Lindl. & Paxt.; Book Review: "You, too, Can Grow Orchids" by Ralph Handcock and Margaret Smith; A Condensed View of Orchid Taxonomy; and Beginners' Handbook: Watering, Humidity and Ventilation. Light wear. Unmarked. A clean copy..

Cambridge, MA, USA: The American Orchid Society, Inc., 1954. Book. Good. Paperback. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Features include: Present-Day Judging Standards of Cattleyas; Cattleya labiata var. autumnalis; For the Beginner: Maintaining a Small Greenhouse; and Pleurothallis pterophora - Collectors' Item. Light wear. Unmarked. A clean copy..

Cambridge, MA, USA: The American Orchid Society, Inc., 1954. Book. Good. Paperback. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Features include: Outstanding Cymbidiums of 1954; Cymbidiums in Sydney, Australia; An Early-Blooming Tetraploid Cymbidium; Spotting of Cymbidium Flowers; Modern Trends in Vandas; Cymbidiums on Kyushu; Bottom Heat for Cymbidium Back Bulb Propagations; For the Beginner: If I Were Starting an Orchid Collection; and Epidendrum elongatum - Collectors' Item. Light wear. Unmarked. A clean copy..

New York: Munn & Company, 1909. Magazine. Illus. by Howe, Samuel. Fair. Paperback. First Edition. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. 40 pages plus xx pages of great vintage ads. Many great black and white photos. Features: "Chesterwood," The Country Home of Daniel Chester French, N.A., Glendale, Massachusetts; A Curious Collection of Bottles; Wild Animals in Captivity; The Summer Home of Theodore Conrow, Esq., Water Mill, Long Island; What Colonial Architecture Really Is; The Mimicry of Plants; The Residence of Atherton Clark, Esq., Newton, Massachusetts - an exceptional house built of Harvard Brick laid with Flemish bond; Colored Windows in the House; A Specimen of Mamillaria Rhodantha; The Dining-Room; Bamboo in the Occident; Economizing Garden Space; A San Antonio Bungalow - the home of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Mavorick, on Alamo Heights, designed by Mr. Harvey L. Page; Color back cover ad for "The Sunshine Belt to the Orient", offered by the ships of Pacific Mail S.S. Co,… Read More

New York: Munn & Company, 1909. Magazine. Illus. by Towles, Beverly. Good. Paperback. First Edition. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Pages 413-452 plus xxiv pages of great vintage ads. Many great black and white photos. Features: The Garden Competition and its Prizes; Notable American Homes - "Villa al Mare," the Country Home of george Lee, Esq., at Beverly Farms, MA; The Garden at Hamilton House; Concrete Ornaments for the Garden and How to Make Them - III - a Concrete Pedestal; The House of J.H. Hammond, Esq., at Wynnewood, PA; A Group of Modern Houses at Nutley, NJ, Costing from $1,000 to $5,000; Bedroom Window-Curtaining; The Beauty and Economy of Stucco; A Farming Experiment by Women at Thatcham, England - photo-illustrated article on the use of Bell glasses, straw mats, and more; Four California Bungalows; The American Shetland Pony; "Pine Haven," The Summer Home of Thomas B. Van Buren, Esq., at Kennebunkport, ME; Nice back cover photo-ad for The "30"… Read More

Cambridge, MA, USA: American Orchid Society, Inc., 1965. Book. Good. Paperback. Revised. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 72 pages. Covers a multitude of important topics including: greenhouses, growing indoors, structure of an orchid flower, structure of an orchid plant, Cattleyas Cymbidiums Phalaenopsis Cypripendiums Dendrobiums Oncidiums Miltonias Odontoglossums Vandas and how to grow them, orchid facts and fancies, an orchidist's glossary, orchid troubles, and more. Significant wear to covers. Contents in nice shape..