Cecile Hulse Matschat

Cecile Hulse Matschat (1895–March 4, 1976) was an American geographer and botanist, known best as the author of books on gardens, gardening and the Okefenokee Swamp.

Growing up, she began studying orchids in nearby swamps and in New Jersey, eventually expanding her explorations to the Everglades, West Indies, Central America and Mexico. She collected the orchids for paintings.

Throughout Matschat's career, she wrote 16 books including 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 died on March 4, 1976, in New York City.

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 How to Make a Garden Planning the Home Grounds Annuals and Perennials Shrubs and Trees Bulbs and House Plants Suwanee River: Strange Green Land (Farrar & Rinehart, New York, 1938), illus. Alexander Key – Volume 3 of the Rivers of America Series Seven Grass Huts: An Engineer's Wife in Central And South America (Farrar & Rinehart, 1939), illus. Matschat American Wild Flowers (Random House, New York, 1940) Preacher on Horseback (Farrar & Rinehart, 1940; Cassell, London, 1941) Murder in Okefenokee (Farrar & Rinehart, 1941) American Butterflies and Moths (Random House, 1942), illus. Rudolf Freund Tavern in the Town (Farrar & Rinehart, 1942; Cassell, 1944) Highway to Heaven (Farrar & Rinehart, 1942) Murder at the Black Crook''' (Farrar & Rinehart, 1943; Cassell, 1945) Land of the Big Swamp: A Story of the Okefenokee Settlement (John C. Winston, Philadelphia, 1954), illus. Alexander Key Animals Of The Valley Of The Amazon'' (Abelard-Schuman, New York, 1965), illus. Edward Osmond