Table of Contents

Preface; Introduction; Family tree; List of illustrations; List of references; List of travellers; Lives of travellers; List of hybridists; Lives of hybridists; Orchid species; Orchid hybrids; Stove and greenhouse plants; Insectivorus plants; Exotic ferns; Coniferous trees; Trees and shrubs - deciduous and climbing plants; Trees and shurbs - evergreen and climbing plants; Herbaceous plants; Bulbous plants; Begonias; Hippeastrums; Orchid hybridization; Nepenthes; Greenhouse rhododendrons; Streptocarpus; Fruits; Vegetables; Index.

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This 1906 work is an account of the Veitch dynasty, who brought many previously unknown plants into cultivation in Britain.