02904cam a22003253u 4500 76463 UtSlPG 20260610134753.0 m cr n 260607r20251904utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d 04010080 UtSlPG en iso639-1 QK Niles, Grace Greylock, 1864-1943 Bog-trotting for orchids Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg, 2025 1 online resource : multiple file formats text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Release date is 2025-07-08 Peter 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) "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.) Originally published: New York: G. P. Putnam's sons, 1904 Orchids -- New England https://archive.org/details/bogtrottingforor00nile https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76463 117188 117188