OUR WILD ORCHIDS

TKAILS AND PORTRAITS. By FRANK MORRIS AND EDWARD A. EAMES, with foreword by Oakes Ames, Professor of Botany in Harvard University. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York. 1929.

There have been many popular treatises devoted to our native orehids and the pleasant task of finding them but this is the best as well as the latest of such books. Although written for and by amateurs, its information is accurate and complete. The authors tell their stories of where and how they found the seventy-two orchids native to northeastern United States. The account of each form is fascinating because it is written by enthusiastic lovers of flowers and all nature, and their discriminating comments on details add much to the descriptions. However, the crowning glory of the book is the series of exquisite, full-page field pictures taken by the authors. Every orchid is shown in its natural setting of bog, thicket or meadow. The book cannot help but arouse enthusiasm in many a reader to go out and experience the pleasures and thrills and even the disappointments of orchid hunting.

Department of Botany.