Handbook on Orchid Culture / American Orchid Society

A Welcome from the American Orchid Society -- The Structure of Orchids -- The Cattleya Alliance -- General Rules of Orchid Culture -- Orchids in the Home -- Orchids in the Greenhouse -- Cattleyas and how to grow them Phalaenopsis and how to grow them -- The Phalaenopsis - Vanda Alliance Paphiopedilums and how to grow them -- A Few Species -- Cymbidiums and how to grow them -- Oncidiums and how to grow them -- TheOncidium - Odontoglossum Alliance -- Odontoglossums and how to grow them -- Dendrobiums and how to grow them -- Vandas and how to grow them Recognizing Better Orchids -- Orchids and People -- Conservation and Collecting -- The World of Botanicals -- Orchid Ailments -- orchid First - Aid -- An Orchidists Glossary -- Orchid Supplies and Equipment -- Your Orchid Bookshelf -- Orchid Facts and Fancies -- Notes on This Handbook -- Your Orchids and Your Society

The flowers of all orhids are built upon a certain basic plan. There is an outher series of three more-or-less similar segments called sepals.Within these is a second series of three segments, two of which are called petals and are alike; the third, called the lip or labellum, is usually larger and more complex.

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