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Bog-trotting for orchids
Grace Greylock Niles
Wild orchids hide in the wettest, least inviting ground, and Grace Niles waded in after them. She tramps the bogs of the Berkshires and Bennington hunting the ram's-head and showy moccasin-flowers, half botanist and half adventurer. Muddy, rapturous nature writing from a woman who loved rare blooms. For gardeners and wildflower seekers who don't mind wet boots.
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117 chapters
- 1Bog-trotting for orchids
- 2Preface
- 3Contents
- 4Illustrations
- 5FIRST SEASON
- 6I Off to the Hills of Berkshire and Bennington
- 7II Ball Brook and the Bogs of Etchowog
- 8III The Haunts of the Ram’s-Head Moccasin-Flowers
- 9IV The Stolen Moccasins
- 10V The Queen of the Indian Moccasin-Flowers
- 11VI Hail Storms at Etchowog
- 12VII Sweet Pogonias and Limodorums
- 13VIII A Colony of Ram’s-Heads in Witch Hollow
- 14IX Over the Huckleberry Plains
- 15SECOND SEASON
- 16X Westville Swamps and Mount Carmel, Connecticut
- 17XI May Showers and White Moccasin-Flowers
- 18XII Saucy Jays and Polypores
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