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Title: Bog-trotting for orchids

Author: Grace Greylock Niles

Release date: July 8, 2025 [eBook #76463]

Language: English

Original publication: New York: G. P. Putnam's sons, 1904

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Bog-trotting for orchids

“I enter a swamp as a sacred place.”—Thoreau

BOG-TROTTING
FOR
ORCHIDS

By GRACE GREYLOCK NILES

With
Illustrations
from
Nature

G. P. Putnam’s Sons
New York and London
The Knickerbocker Press
1904

Copyright, 1904
by
GRACE GREYLOCK NILES

Published, April, 1904

The Knickerbocker Press, New York

TO
GENEVIEVE FARNELL
IN GRATEFUL APPRECIATION
OF
HER AID AND ENCOURAGEMENT

The Pink Moccasin-Flower. (Cypripedium acaule.)

“One true-born blossom, native to our skies,
We dare not claim as kin,
Nor frankly seek, for all that in it lies,
The Indian’s moccasin.”
Elaine Goodale.