TERRESTRIALS, NATIVE: Suitable for Garden Growing

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by Robert M. [Bert] Hamilton (Compiler)

Originally published in The Orchid Doctor in 1980 and 1988

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Besides Epipactis helleborine there are many others; a fine recommended book is W.H.Gibson: Our native orchids (1905); refer to A73-6874-; A76-206; for practice in Germany, refer to OR77-340+
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