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 Laoche, 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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