The RBG Orchid Library

After every RBG Annual Orchid Show, the orchid society has used part of the profits to purchase library materials: books, periodicals, video tapes, audio tapes and CD Roms. Our library of approximately 700 items is housed and catalogued in the Main RBG library which is available to members of the Orchid Society of the RBG from 1:30 to 2:00 on orchid-meeting Sundays. Come look us over and check out some materials for study at home. Magazines do not circulate.

The following policy guides selection of the material:

1) Provide for member's needs, primarily books on cultivation, propagation and identification.

2) Provide reference material for AOS judges at annual show and for judges in training.

3) Build an extensive collection to support the New World Orchid Species Collection.

4) Provide a comprehensive collection of books dealing with Native Canadian and North American orchids.

The following items have been added recently (May 2003):

A: Books

Lavarack and Harris. Botanica's Pocket Orchids
Menezes. Cattleya Labiata Autumnalis
O'Byrne. A to Z of South East Asian Orchids
Greisen. Commercial Propagation of Orchids in Tissue Culture; Seed-Flasking Methods
Zachos. Orchid Growing for Wimps: Techniques for the "Wish I Could Do That" Gardener
Brown. Wild Orchids of Florida
Siegerist. Bulbophyllums and Their Allies: A Grower's Guide
Menezes. Orquideas Genus Cyropodium:
Plimpton. The Orchid Tourist: An International Guide to Public Orchid Collections
Rolando. Orchids of Machu Picchu Pueblo Hotel
Dodson and Escobar. Native Ecuadorian Orchids, vol. 2
Dodson. Native Ecuadorian Orchids, Vol 3.
Vasquez and Ibisch. Orchids of Bolivia, Vol. 1.

B. CD Roms

American Orchid Society Awards, l932-200l
Orchids of Peru, No. 1
Dressler. The Orchids of Costa Rica
Menezes. The Orchids of Brazil
Behar. Guatemala and its Orchids.

Please do not hesitate to make suggestions for additions to the Society Librarian.

Scott Milne