Northwest History. Alaska, United States.

• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1937
• Subjects: tropical orchids; Alaska; botanist; Wiseman; Edith Scammon; Harvard University; Lady's Slippers; Lady's Tresses; Gray Herbarium; specimens; Northwest; Pacific > History > 20th century; Arctic; Edith; Pacific
• Online Access: http://content.libraries.wsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/clipping/id/92172

Tropical Orchids Found By Botanist In Alaska. Tropical Orchids Found By Botanist in Alaska WISEMAN, Alaska, Sept. 1 (/P)--Far from the tropics, where they nourish, four varieties of orchids are growing near this arctic circle village. Edith Scammon, Harvard University botanist, discovered the dainty...