A Practical Treatise on the Management of Orchidaceous Plants, with a monthly calendar of work to be done, and an alphabetical descriptive catalogue of upwards of one thousand species; with directions for their growrh and flowering by Lyons, J.C - 1845

London & Dublin: J. Ridgway; Hodges and Smith, 1845. Second edition, greatly enlarged. Illustrated with a few small engravings in the text, small octavo, pp 234, some foxing and age-toning throughout, otherwise sound internally, purple cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt on the upper cover, slightly worn and faded, lower cover wrinkled, lacking 8mm of the spine head, the spine has "Lyons Orchid" written on it. RARE. [Lyons, antiquary, horticulturist and inventor, made boilers for his glasshouses, orchid baskets, and clocks, and in 1837 constructed his own printing-press, establishing the Ledeston Press. In the same year he imported tropical orchids from Mexico, and in 1839 received thirty-five from Trinidad. His Remarks on the Management of Orchidaceous Plants (first edition, 1843), published by his own press, was, apparently, the first book in English on the cultivation of orchids. By 1845 he had an extensive orchid collection, one of only three privately owned in the country, and this greatly extended second edition reflected this. His comments on temperature, humidity, fresh air and misting in the glasshouse improved orchid cultivation everywhere.] . Second edition. Cloth. Good.