Orchid-hunting is a mortal occupation.
Victorian-era orchid hunter William Arnold drowned on a collecting expedition.
Osmers vanished without a trace in Asia.
Augustus Margary survived
toothache, rheumatism,
pleurisy and dysentery, only
to be murdered when he
completed his mission
and traveled beyond Bhamo.
Laroche loved orchids, but I...
I came to believe he loved the difficulty
and fatality of getting
them almost as much as he
loved the orchids themselves.
John Laroche, Orchid Hunter :
I've been a professional
horticulturist for like 12 years.
Uh, I owned my own plant nursery,
which was destroyed by The Hurricane.
I'm a professional plant lecturer.
I've given over, like, 60 lectures
on the cultivation of plants.
I'm a published author,
both in magazine
and book form.
And I have extensive
experience with orchids
and the asexual
micropropagation of orchids
under aseptic cultures.
That's laboratory work.
It's not at all like your
nursery work.
Um...
I'm probably the smartest
person I know.
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