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a radius of twenty miles of Rochester I found twenty-one different species of orchids, many of them far handsomer than anything the horticulturalist has yet produced.

And don't be ashamed of having a hobby. A hobby is a sign of intelligence and you can well afford to ignore those ignoramuses who display their lack of brains by sneering at your hobby. T. Horace MacFarland has written an article in the Outlook (1905) entitled "One of Our Kind." It deals with that great fraternity, unorganized yet closely bound together - the Naturalists.

On our trip to Bubs Lake we therefore paid careful attention to the flora. In the woods about Bubs, as well as around Mountain Pond, the flora was more or less generally characteristic of the whole of the great North Woods. The soil underlying this forest is mainly a mass of decayed vegetation extending downwards at varying depths to the bed-rock.T These woods were carpeted with the trailing Dalibarda repens with its delicate white flowers, the partridge-berry, the twin-flowered and twin-leaved Linnaea borealis pepissiwa, several species of Pyrola, the white oxalis, the mountain form of rattlesnake plantain, Cornus canadensis, sometimes in bloom and sometimes with its masses of red berries, the blue fruit of theClintonia borealis, painted trilliums in fruit which, by the way, is the most common species of trillium in these woods, ground pine and other species of Lycopodium, and many ferns and mosses. Nearer the lake we found many clumps of Labrador Tea, sheep-laurel, and Andromeda. The eastern end of the lake near the Outlet is very swampy and here we found Pogonia, Calopogon, Habenaria clavellata, the two Droseras rotundifolia and longifolia and Aster nemoralis. We spent a couple of hours in the vicinity