Orchid Hunters Melina

Orchid Hunters MelinaThe pinnacle of orchid hunting activity was in the nineteenth century when prices for individual plants reached astonishing levels. Such were the profits to be made that many of the most active orchid hunters were directly employed by orchid nurseries in Britain and Europe. These were not the aristocratic administrators of empire; they were trained gardeners and horticulturalists who had a yearning to travel and see for themselves where the plants

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a young orphan named Anne Brown has lost everything

sweeping novel set between the 19th century and modern times