This edition about growing of orchids does not have analogues. An author of book, Galina Leonidovna Коломейцева, is a doctor of biological sciences, counsel of collection of орхидных of the Main botanical garden the name of Н. В. Цицина WOUNDS. On the basis of the unique 30-years-old experience on the study of orchids she recommends the steadiest kinds and hybrids for growing in an apartment: on a window-sill, in a small hothouse, on a heat-insulated loggia. A separate head is devoted to the "precious" orchids that conduct not for the sake of flowering, and for the sake of original sparkling velvet leaves. The special attention is spared to the agrotechnics of each of groups. Accompanies all descriptions of plants of Г. Л. Коломейцева own photos.A book can be used as an atlas-determinant and as practical guidance on a care for those, who bought the first orchid, and those, who a long ago transformed in специалиста-орхидеевода.