Being of Royal Quarto size, the pages of the Album are sufficiently large to enable the artist to produce ample and intelligible portraits of the plants without their becoming cumbersome; and, as they will be drawn and coloured in the best style, we confidently hope they will prove to be acceptable to the lovers and growers of Orchids generally. Thus we trust we may be permitted to lay before our patrons an acceptable Annual Album of Floral Pictures, which will be, at once, welcomed both to the Drawing-room and the Library.
The work has been commenced in deference to the urgent representations of many of the leading cultivators of these remarkable and fascinating plants, who have pointed out to us the want which we are now endeavouring to meet. The great advantage and pleasure which Orchid Growers have derived from the publication of such illustrated works as the _Select Orchidaceous Plants_, and such practical instructions as are given in the _Orchid Grower’s Manual_, lead us to believe that there exists a desire and a taste for further Orchidic literature, which we trust the Orchid Album may in some considerable degree supply. Our chief aim will be to give authentic information as to the nomenclature of the plants, and to disseminate correct instructions in regard to their cultural requirements. The finer new Orchids, as well as the older meritorious species and varieties, will be figured with equal fidelity, and described with equal accuracy. We shall at all times feel grateful to those Amateurs or Trade growers who may give us information as to the flowering either of novelties or of remarkably fine forms of the older kinds, especially if they are such as will be suitable for figuring.
The Annual Volumes will consist of the twelve Monthly Parts issued up to June in each year, when the volume will be completed by the publication of a Title Page and Index.
Victoria and Paradise Nurseries, Upper Holloway, London, N., _June 1st, 1882_.
PLATE AËRIDES LOBBII, _Hort. Veitch_ 21 ANGRÆCUM EBURNEUM, _Du Pet.-Th._ 41 ANGULOA RUCKERII SANGUINEA, _Lindl._ 19 BURLINGTONIA CANDIDA, _Lindl._ 18 CALANTHE VEITCHII, _Lindl._ 31 CATTLEYA GUTTATA LEOPOLDII, _Lind. et Rchb. f._ 16 CATTLEYA MENDELII GRANDIFLORA, _Williams et Moore_ 3 CATTLEYA MORGANÆ, _Williams et Moore_ 6 CATTLEYA SUPERBA SPLENDENS, _Lem._ 33 CATTLEYA TRIANÆ, _Lind. et Rchb. f._ 45 CATTLEYA VELUTINA, _Rchb. f._ 26 CŒLOGYNE MASSANGEANA, _Rchb. f._ 29 CYMBIDIUM PARISHII, _Rchb. f._ 25 CYPRIPEDIUM CHLORONEURUM, _Rchb. f._ 37 CYPRIPEDIUM LAWRENCEANUM, _Rchb. f._ 22 CYPRIPEDIUM POLITUM, _Rchb. f._ 36 CYPRIPEDIUM STONEI, _Low_ 8 DENDROBIUM AINSWORTHII ROSEUM, _Moore_ 20 DENDROBIUM BIGIBBUM, _Lindl._ 38 DENDROBIUM SUAVISSIMUM, _Rchb. f._ 13 DENDROBIUM SUPERBUM, _Rchb. f._ 42 EPIDENDRUM VITELLINUM MAJUS, _Hort._ 4 LÆLIA ANCEPS DAWSONI, _Anders._ 44 LÆLIA ELEGANS ALBA, _Williams et Moore_ 30 LÆLIA PURPURATA WILLIAMSII, _Hort._ 9-10 LÆLIA SCHRÖDERII, _Williams et Moore_ 2 LÆLIA XANTHINA, _Lindl._ 23 MASDEVALLIA HARRYANA CŒRULESCENS, _Hort._ 24 MASDEVALLIA SHUTTLEWORTHII, _Rchb. f._ 5 MILTONIA CUNEATA, _Lindl._ 46 ODONTOGLOSSUM ALEXANDRÆ, _Batem._ 47 ODONTOGLOSSUM ALEXANDRÆ FLAVEOLUM, _Williams et Moore_ 43 ODONTOGLOSSUM ANDERSONIANUM, _Rchb. f._ 35 ODONTOGLOSSUM BREVIFOLIUM, _Lindl._ 27 ODONTOGLOSSUM KRAMERI, _Rchb. f._ 40 ONCIDIUM CONCOLOR, _Hook._ 1 ONCIDIUM GARDNERI, _Lindl._ 12 ONCIDIUM HÆMATOCHILUM, _Lindl._ 32 PAPHINIA CRISTATA, _Lindl._ 34 PESCATOREA KLABOCHORUM, _Rchb. f._ 17 PHALÆNOPSIS AMABILIS DAYANA, _Hort._ 11 PHALÆNOPSIS STUARTIANA NOBILIS, _Rchb. f._ 39 PROMENÆA CITRINA, _Don._ 7 TRICHOPILIA SUAVIS ALBA, _Hort._ 14 VANDA CŒRULESCENS, _Griff._ 48 VANDA PARISHII, _Rchb. f._ 15 ZYGOPETALUM GAUTIERI, _Lem._ 28