10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ORCHIDOMANIA»
Discover the use of
orchidomania in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
orchidomania and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The London Quarterly and Holborn Review
We think we have shown that there is no resemblance between the present
orchidomania, and the gambling tulipo- mania of Holland. That many persons
cultivate orchids because it is fashionable to do so, is true. But the same may be
said of ...
2
The London Quarterly Review
... guineas, and was refused 1 We think we have shown that there is no
resemblance between the present orchidomania, and the gambling tulipomania
of Holland. That many persons cultivate orchids because it is fashionable to do
so, is true.
3
Orchid Biology: Reviews and Perspectives X: Reviews and ...
... 9 Orchidaceae, 187, 190, 200, 201 Orchidomania, 221 Orchids camera lucida
and Darwin's writings, 225-226 Cattleya labiata, 224-225 Cotton's work, 229
degrees of abstraction, 226-227 O'Keeffe's work, 227-228 in hummingbird
paintings, ...
Tiiu Kull, Joseph Arditti, Sek Man Wong, 2009
face of ever bolder incursions into the labyrinth of personality, Henry James was
prophetic: "Never say you know the last word about any human heart!"
Orchidomania Orchids: Flowers of Romance and Mystery. By Jack Kramer. Harry
N.
Orchidomania Orchids: Flowers of Romance and Mystery. By Jack Kramer. Harry
N. Abrams, Inc. S35- Reviewed by John Hope Franklin It would be a gross error
in judgment and taste to classify this extraordinarily handsome book as one ...
William Allison Shimer, 1976
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... to familiar places excessive sexual desire mania for buying or purchasing
things obsession or craze for wine Oligomania Onomamania Onomatomania
Onychotillomania Opiomania Opsomania Orchidomania M Parousiamania
Pathomania ...
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The Floriculture Magazine, and Miscellany of Gardening
This importation was quite nnique in its way, and formed a sort of epoch in tho
history of Orchidomania. A vessel came into port freighted almost exclusively with
Epiphytes and Cacti, and such was their abundance, that it was found necessary
...
... cf. monomania) oniomania (m. for buying articles of all kinds) ophidiomania (1-
of reptiles) opiomania (addiction to opium) opsomania (m. for special kinds of
food; cf. phagomania, sitomania) orchidomania (o. with testicles) ornithomania (1.
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Mabberley's Plant-book: A Portable Dictionary of Plants, ...
Am.: P. limminghei (Lindl.) Liickel & Braem - cult. orn. Psychopsis Raf. (~
Oncidium). Orchidaceae (V 10). 4 trop. Am. Cult. orn. P. papilio (Lindl.) H. Jones -
introd. from Trinidad 1826, start of C19 'orchidomania' Psychotria L. Rubiaceae (
IV 7).
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Icons of Mystery and Crime Detection: From Sleuths to ...
The novella Black Orchids (1942) reveals both Wolfe's greedy orchidomania and
Archie's interest in model Anne Tracy, as well as some unforgettably horrid
images, as when Archie's inspection of the victim's fatal head wound felt ''like
sticking ...
