A Practical Treatise on the Cultivation of Orchidaceous Plants: With Remarks on their Geographical Distribution, and a Select Catalogue of the Best Kinds in Cultivation

John Henshall

R. Groombridge and Sons, 5, Paternoster Row, London, 1845

[Orchidology] Bound in publisher's red cloth.  Hardcover.  Good binding and cover. Neatly rebacked. Clean, unmarked pages. viii, 124 pages : hand colored frontispiece; 8vo.  Held in custom made leather-backed marbled clam shell case. Pritzel 3976. Not in Nissen. <br> Henshall served for a time as the gardener to the Baron von Shroeder, to whom this work is dedicated. He journeyed to Java on behalf of Messrs. Rollison, Tooting nurserymen, to collect orchids on their behalf and is known to have corresponded with William Jackson Hooker (the first director of Kew Gardens), offering specimens to the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. His work comprises detailed descriptions of the various genera of orchids, as well as a complete index of all the known plants.