FW: Brooklyn Botanic Garden Releases a New Orchid Book

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Not promoting this book, just passing the announcement along.

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From: "Figueroa, Noemi" <noemifigueroa@bbg.org>
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 12:02:38 -0500
Subject: Brooklyn Botanic Garden Releases a New Orchid Book

Contact: Noemi Figueroa (718) 623-7241

noemifigueroa@bbg.org

Visit us online at www.bbg.org <http://www.bbg.org/>

Grow beautiful tropical orchids in your own home with helpful tips from
Brooklyn Botanic Garden¹s new handbook, The Best Orchids for Indoors!

Brooklyn, NY  Brooklyn Botanic Garden will help you grow one of the worlds
most exotic and fascinating flowers with, The Best Orchids for Indoors, your
guide to some of the most spectacular tropical orchids that will thrive in
the home or greenhouse. Concise and easy-to-understand, this beautifully
illustrated Brooklyn Botanic Garden handbook helps you choose gorgeous
tropical orchids and explains how to grow them successfully indoors. Follow
a few simple basic guidelines and you can turn your windowsill or your
entire home into a luxurious haven for these stunning tropical bloomers.

Written by prominent national and international orchid experts in
association with the American Orchid Society, and illustrated with over 80
stunning photographs, The Best Orchids for Indoors features a comprehensive
encyclopedia with chapters on the most important orchids for growing
indoors, including angraecoids, cattleyas, cymbidiums, dendrobiums,
oncidiums, Phalaenopsis, pleurothallids, tropical slipper orchids, vandas,
as well as miniature orchids.

An authoritative reference guide, The Best Orchids for Indoors provides
detailed growing information for the tropical orchids of your choice, with
tips on proper lighting, temperatures, watering, humidity requirements,
fertilizing, potting, and more. In addition, the lushly illustrated 120-page
book explains how orchids grow in the wild and demystifies orchid
classification and naming. Also included is a conservation guide that tells
orchid gardeners what they can do to preserve orchids and their habitats.

Internationally acclaimed orchid photographer and horticulturist Charles
Marden Fitch is the editor and principal photographer of The Best Orchids
for Indoors as well as its companion book, The Gardener¹s Guide to Growing
Orchids, to be published in May. Fitch is the author of many books,
including All About Orchids, The Complete Book of Houseplants, Orchid
Photography, and The Rodale Book of Garden Photography.

Brooklyn Botanic Garden¹s 21st-Century Gardening Series has been given a new
name and a new look. Now called Brooklyn Botanic Garden All-Region Guides,
the series¹ first title in 2004, The Best Orchids for Indoors, is now
available. Each volume of the series is designed to be user-friendly with
expert growing information, a plant encyclopedia, practical advice,
mail-order sources, and stunning photographs. A trusted source for
gardeners¹ needs since 1945, BBG¹s gardening handbooks are the only ones of
their kind published by a botanic garden.

The series of handbooks is guest-edited by the very pioneers who are
revolutionizing American garden design. Authors of individual chapters are
chosen for their expert knowledge of particular plants. The books are lushly
illustrated, easy to read, and offer inspiration and tips for those who
enjoy studying gardening or just being in nature. Winners of the Garden
Writers Association of America¹s ³2000 Quill and Trowel Award² and the
International Herb Association¹s 2002 and 2000 ³Herbal Horticulture Award,²
the handbooks are full of practical ideas on how to make gardens both
ecologically sensible and beautiful.

³[A] brilliant collection of little gardening handbooks published quarterly
by the Brooklyn Botanic Garden? there is, as usual, the mix of common sense,
practical advice and, on occasion, pointed debunking that make these slender
volumes do the work of books twice their size and three times their price.²
 The New York Times

³For expert advice in all realms of horticulture, gardeners have come to
depend upon the handbooks produced by Brooklyn Botanic Garden.²  Booklist

Ordering Information

The Best Orchids for Indoors (ISBN 1-889538-60-4) is available through
Sterling Publishing Co., Inc. in bookstores and at garden centers for $9.95
in the U.S./$14.95 in Canada. For wholesale ordering information, call
Sterling Publishing at 800-367-9692 or visit their web site at
www.sterlingpub.com <http://www.sterlingpub.com/> . For retail and
individual book sales, visit www.bbg.org <http://www.bbg.org/>  or call
(718) 623-7286. To receive a free brochure of current and past handbook
titles, call (718) 623-7289.

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