The Goody era repens, also very small but charming. 
To complete the Exhibit and give students a still greater oppor- 
tunity to study these exquisite plants, Mr. Burrage arranged in a 
smaller hall photographs of every species of our native orchids, together 
vidth dried specimens; all carefully labeled. The newspapers of that 
week printed many articles concerning the Exhibit, so that the for- 
tunate ones who were in Boston at that time had a rare opportunity to 
study what remains of our once widely-distributed Orchids, now so 
nearly destroyed. 
Mr. Burrage feels that if the public can appreciate what the loss of 
such a flora will mean to the United States every efifort will be made 
on the part of nature lovers to protect what is left. He also hopes to 
show that these Orchids can be cultivated, multiplied and brought 
back to our woods. 
Following this Exhibit of our Wild Orchids of New England it is 
interesting to note that in another far part of our country — the Canal 
Zone of Panama, Mrs. Samuel Heald is going to speciaHze in the 
native Orchids of the Zone, for the benefit of the Garden Club of 
America. She has been elected a Member-at-Large and is a member of 
the Wild Flower Committee. She has long been a student of Orchids, 
and those of Panama are beautiful and rare. As nothing has been 
published on the flora of Panama we shall eagerly await what Mrs. 
Heald and her committee have to tell us. 
The Wild Flower Preservation Society of Cincinnati has been 
given one hundred copies of Mrs. Elizabeth Perry's book, "Studies of 
a Plant Lover. " This delightful book represents years of study by a 
gifted woman, who had a remarkable collection of Michigan ferns. 
The book lays stress on plant family characteristics, helping the 
casual student to detect at a glance to which family a plant belongs. 
It was written in her 78th and 82nd years, and the frontispiece gives 
the reader a good idea of the strength, serenity and fineness of Mrs. 
Perry's personaHty, which the book sustains. Her three daughters, 
with a friend, whom Mrs. Perry called her fourth daughter, have 
compiled the book, and distributed it widely in schools and organiza- 
tions as a memorial to their mother. Professor Harris M. Benedict 
of Cincinnati University speaks thus of the book: "With the touch of 
a reserve and stateliness of a day that is gone, as if it were an honored, 
time-tested and well-loved friend, she introduces each flower to me. 
Each stands before me, revealed in the light which her long intimacy 
with it has kindled. " 
The book may be purchased through Mr. Walter B. Hofer, 312 
Sycamore Street, Cincinnati. Price $3.00 to members of the Garden 
Club. Postage .10. 
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