New books - out of scope

[M. Hachadourian]

McAlpine, Duncan G wrote:

> per Chen Yi oF Kaichen Nursery
> chenyi at public.netchina.com.cn
>
> By the way, there are two new books will be published in next month.
> It's brief introduction and prices as bellow. If you are interested in,
> please let me know.
>
>    << Native Orchids of China in Colour >>  [$20.00 USD each.]
> China is rich in orchid flora. There are some 172 genera and 1200
> species known from this country. Nearly one fourth of them are of
> horticultural merit, such as paphiopedilums, cypripediums, cymbidiums
> and pleiones. This book is a companion volume of "The ORCHIDS OF CHINA"
> published in 1998, but the attention is focused on the wild species of
> horticultural importance. Altogether 403 wild species in 115 genera are
> included in this book. Each species has a couple of colour photographs
> of habitat and enlarged flowers and both English and Chinese
> descriptions. The colour photographs were mainly taken by the authors
> themselves in recent years, some of which, such as the habitat of
> Paphiopedilum emersonii, are published for the first time. This book
> would be very informative and helpful to not only orchid specialists but
> also growers and amateurs.
>
>        << The orchids of China >>   [$10.00 USD each.]
> The orchids of China is a book written by S. C. Chen and Z. H. Tsi and
> published in 1998. It consists of 14 chapters and five appendices, such
> as "Orchid Genera of China", "Native Cymbidium of China", "Chinese
> Non-cymbidium Orchids of Horticultural importance" and "Propogation
> (including tissue culture)".
> Although this book is mainly written in Chinese, all genera and species
> have scientific names and some chapters have English annotations. The
> appendices "A List of Artificial Hybrid Genera and their Parents" and
> "Abbreviation of Both Hybrid and Non-hybrid Orchid Genera" are written
> in English. In addition nearly 150 colour photographs, 60 drawings and
> many photographs of Chinese ancient orchid painting are included in this
> book. It is a very informative and useful book to orchid people.
>
> ( S. C. Chen----Professor of botany, President of the Orchid Society of
>  China. He has published five books and over one hundred articles on
>  orchids.)

Duncan-

I would love to get a copy of each book. Let me know if you will be placing
an order.

Sincerely
Marc