Books with author Frederick S. Boas

The Woodlands Orchids is a classic botany studies text by Frederick Boyle. I am tempted to quote some remarks of my own, published in October 1892. 'I sometimes think that orchids were designed at their inception to comfort the elect of human beings in this anxious age--the elect, I say, among whom the rich may or may not be included. Consider! To generate them must needs have been the latest "act of creation," as the ancient formula goes--in the realm of plants and flowers at least.

Excerpt from The Woodlands Orchids: Described and Illustrated, With Stories of Orchid-CollectingThis work is not of the class which needs a Preface. But to the Editors of the Pall Mall Gazette, Sunday Times, Black and White, Chambers's Journal, Wide Wide World, and Badminton Magazine I am indebted for license to republish my stories of Orchid-seeking, and it is pleasant to acknowledge their courtesy. If those tales amuse the general reader, I trust that other portions of the work will be found not uninteresting, nor even unprofitable, by orchid-growers. Plain descriptions of scarce species and varieties are not readily accessible. A mere list of the hybrids in the Woodlands collection would be found useful, pending the issue of that international catalogue which must be undertaken shortly; but beyond this I have noted the peculiarities of colour and form in such of the progeny as seemed most curious. No doubt many experts will wish that I had described some which are passed over and omitted some described - without agreeing among themselves in either case perhaps. But I have done my best.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Excerpt from The Woodlands Orchids: Described and Illustrated, With Stories of Orchid-CollectingThis work is not of the class which needs a Preface. But to the Editors of the Pall Mall Gazette, Sunday Times, Black and White, Chambers's Journal, Wide Wide World, and Badminton Magazine I am indebted for license to republish my stories of Orchid-seeking, and it is pleasant to acknowledge their courtesy. If those tales amuse the general reader, I trust that other portions of the work will be found not uninteresting, nor even unprofitable, by orchid-growers. Plain descriptions of scarce species and varieties are not readily accessible. A mere list of the hybrids in the Woodlands collection would be found useful, pending the issue of that international catalogue which must be undertaken shortly; but beyond this I have noted the peculiarities of colour and form in such of the progeny as seemed most curious. No doubt many experts will wish that I had described some which are passed over and omitted some described - without agreeing among themselves in either case perhaps. But I have done my best.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from A Ride Across a Continent, Vol. 2 of 2: A Personal Narrative of Wanderings Through Nicaragua and Costa RicaSailing on the lake - Captain Pim's opinion - Canal projects The old Transit - Seeing the world - Lost in the jungle Second attempt to make a Frio exploration - Muyogalpa Indian belles - Coyote - Why dogs hark - Tropical nature Ometepec Free lover sect - Squirrel story - Congo story - Snake story - Story of a priest and a murder - King vul ture-antiquities - Burials - Pottery - Ornaments - The lust of the eyes and the pride of life - Across the lake - N arrow escape - Two pictures - A lonely life among the orange trees - San Juan del Sur - Rivas - Political affairs - The filibusters - General Walker - Stirring news-ride to Granada.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from The Savage Life: A Second Series of Camp NotesThe finding of diamonds along the Vaal River is only a re-discovery. I am informed that an old Dutch mission map, preserved in the library of the Chamber of Commerce at Port Elizabeth, records an early knowledge of them. Hz'er be diamazztm is written across the territory we now call Griqualand West. Two hundred years ago, in a folio published at London, 16 5 7, Van Riebeek mentioned diamonds as found near the rich city Momotopata. He says that the stones brought from thence sparkled like stars in a night sky. Of this historical, yet most mysterious city, the ruins appear to have been just discovered by our digging prospectors, below Bloemhof, in the lands of the Coranna Chieftain, Monkoran, some fifty miles from Pniel. Casts of column, sculpture, and frieze from thence, de scribed as beautiful, have already reached Cape Town, but since my departure.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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