Cecile Hulse Matschat

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
  • 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)
• Ladd 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