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100 1 _aNiles, Grace Greylock,
_d1864-1943
245 1 0 _aBog-trotting for orchids
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2025
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
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337 _acomputer
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_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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500 _aRelease date is 2025-07-08
508 _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)
520 _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.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cNew York: G. P. Putnam's sons, 1904
653 _aOrchids -- New England
856 4 _uhttps://archive.org/details/bogtrottingforor00nile
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76463
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