This book captures Daily agenda and presentations from the 1984 World Orchid Conference.

The World Orchid Conference is a triennial gathering of orchid lovers from all over the world.

This book covers the daily agenda, Color photographs of the Medal awarded Orchids, various reports as well as conference papers in great details.

The list of conference papers include:
- Pollination of Tropical and Temperate Orchids
- Some Structural and Physiological Features which facilitate the survival of orchids
- The Cypripedium calceolus L. Complex in North America
- Orchids in Borneo and their conservation
- An Energy- Efficient Greenhouse
- Temperature Tolerance in Cymbidiums
- Canadian Orchids: Distribution and Pollination Biology
- Breeding Broughtonias
- The conservation of Australian Orchids
- Breeding and Growing Phalaenopsis in South Africa
- A Review of the "Antelope" Dendrobiums, Dendrobium Sect. Spatulata
- What is an Odontoglossum
- What is Classification and Why does it keep changing?
- How a farmer's wife grows cymbidiums in South Africa
- New trends in Phalaenopsis Breeding
- Flowering in Tropical Orchids
- Biochemistry of Flower Color
- Breeding Phalaenopsis for new color and from a new horizon
- Towards an understanding of the Genus Epidendrum
- The native orchids of Florida
- Representative Types of Miniature Cattleya
- Orchid Culture in the United States
- Everglades national Park: An Imperiled Wetland
- Breeding with Amphidiploid Dendrobiums
- Orchids of Taiwan
- Breeding Vinicolor Paphiopedilums
- Orchids in 3-D
- French Breeding Lines in Phalaenopsis
- Contemporary Miltoniopsis Hybridizing
- Orchids of Guatemala and Central America
- The Native Orchids of Continental United States Excluding Florida
- A Key to the Genera of the Pleurothallidinae
- The Breeding trends of ten Ondontoglossum Alliance in Australia
- On Orchids Books
- Miniature Cymbidiums
- Post Harvest Physiology and Handling of Orchids
- New developments in American Cattleya Breeding
- Collecting Paphiopedilums in Malaysia
- Native Orchids of Alaska
- Wild Orchids of Portugal
- Breeding Green Cattleyas
- India's native Orchids
- Terrestrial orchid seed storage
- Orchid Growing in the United Kingdom
- Some Ideas on Conservation and Development of Rarer Thai Orchid species
- A revision of the Genus Paphiopedilum
- The section Formosae of the Genus Dendrobium
- Tissue Culturing Phalaenopsis using Leaves and leave segments
- Vandaceous Alliance Intergeneric Hybridization
- New trends in Vanda breeding
- Philippine Orchids
- Angraecoid Orchids
- Basics of Orchid Taxonomy
- A study of the Orchid Epidermis Using the electron scanning microscope
- Philippine Paphiopedilums
- Northern climates and greenhouses: New approaches in Canada
- Bolivian orchids
- The Brazilian Laelias
- The art and science of orchid Hybridizing
- Miniature Orchids of the new world
- Advances and Trends in Orchid floral fragrance analysis
- The Equitant Oncidiums
- The principles and applications of diagnostic techniques used for orchid virus detection
- Virus Diseases of orchids- some basics and a perspective for growers