West Australian Orchids
by
EMILY H. PELLOE
Author of
"WILDFLOWERS OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA"

Do they say that the bush is all greyness and gloom
Why, the rainbow has lent every thread from his loom
To weave into flower and shrub!
There are star-flowers blue as the deep winter sky,
Here are "Grandmothers Honeycups," humble and shy;
And the purple of hovea bloom.
Half hiding, half peeping, the orchids appear,
The friendly and cheerful red runner creeps near–
Say, where are the greyness and gloom.

–LILIAN WOOSTER GREAVES.

[ILLUSTRATIONS BY THE AUTHOR]
PUBLISHED BY
EMILY H. PELLOE
PERTH
WESTERN AUSTRALIA

1930

My thanks are due to
DR. R. S. ROGERS
and
LT.-COL. B. T. GOADBY
for generously given assistance in collecting
material for the compilation of this Book.
PERTH, W.A., 1930.
EMILY H. PELLOE.
Registered by the Postmaster-General for transmission
through the Post as an Australian Book.
Wholly Set up and Printed in
Australia by
DIX LIMITED
Murray St. Perth.
Three-colour Blocks by
GIBNEY & SONS LTD.
Perth.

To
SIR FRANCIS NEWDEGATE, K.C.M.G.,
LATE GOVERNOR OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA,
AND LOVER OF ITS FLORA.