02873cam a22003133u 450000100060000000300070000600500170001300600020003000700050003200800410003701000130007804000110009104100170010205000070011910000380012624500290016426400510019330000470024433600260029133700260031733800360034350000310037950801730041052017880058353400630237165300270243485600550246185600430251676463UtSlPG20260610134753.0mcr n260607r20251904utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d  a04010080  aUtSlPG 7aen2iso639-1 4aQK1 aNiles, Grace Greylock,d1864-194310aBog-trotting for orchids 1aSalt Lake City, UT :bProject Gutenberg,c2025  a1 online resource :bmultiple file formats  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  aRelease date is 2025-07-08  aPeter Becker and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)  a"Bog-trotting for orchids" by Grace Greylock Niles is an illustrated nature travelogue written in the early 20th century. It follows an avid orchid hunter across the bogs, streams, and hills of the Hoosac Valley, blending engaging field notes with local geology, folklore, and a strong conservation ethic. Readers can expect intimate portraits of lady’s slippers and other wildflowers, vivid scenes of Berkshire and Bennington landscapes, and reflective episodes with the author’s trusty hound and curious local children.  The opening of this work sets the scope and mood: a preface locates the Hoosac Valley within the Taconic Mountains, notes the richness of North American orchids, and frames the excursions as seasonal searches for both orchids and their companion plants. The first chapters trace the author’s route from New York through New Haven to North Adams, with early field stops featuring walking fern, azaleas, and the dramatic setting of Mount Greylock and the Hoosac Tunnel. She then undertakes strenuous “bog-trotting” along Ball Brook and the Bogs of Etchowog, finding pink and yellow lady’s slippers, pitcher plants and sundews, and naming a lush ravine the Glen of Comus, while describing the hazards of quaking peat and “dead holes.” A local girl leads to the rare Ram’s-Head lady’s slipper, prompting close botanical description; a later episode laments children stripping blooms and the trade in medicinal roots, segueing into concise notes on orchid pollination from Gray and Darwin. The section closes with the first pale blooms of the queenly showy lady’s slipper, sightings of green and white Habenaria, a search for the showy orchis, and observations on the variable yellow Cypripediums. (This is an automatically generated summary.)  pOriginally published:cNew York: G. P. Putnam's sons, 1904  aOrchids -- New England4 uhttps://archive.org/details/bogtrottingforor00nile40uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76463