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Cecile Hulse Matschat
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Name
Cecile Matschat
Role
Author
Died
1976
Books
Suwannee River: Strange Green Land, Seven grass huts, American Butterflies and Moths
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Cecile Hulse Matschat (1895 - 1976) was an American geographer and botanist, known best as the author of books on gardens, gardening and the Okefenokee Swamp. Her Rivers of America book on the Suwannee River —Suwanee River: Strange Green Land (Farrar & Rinehart, 1938)— provided rare insight into the society and history of the people of the Okefenokee Swamp. Matschat was a member of the Society of Woman Geographers from 1937 to 1966.
Works
Mexican Plants for American Gardens (Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston, 1935)
The Garden Calendar (Houghton Mifflin, 1936)
The Garden Primers (Houghton Mifflin, 1937), illustrated by Jean Martin