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Title: Outing
Year: 1885 (1880s)
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Subjects: Leisure Sports Travel
Publisher: (New York : Outing Pub. Co.)
Contributing Library: Tisch Library
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ally requires an effort to rise fromthe cool, shady couch, go out into the glar-ing sunshine and gather a spray or two;but where theres a will theres a way,and having secured a few, we resume ourease, for nothing is so conducive to satis-factory thinking as comfort. You cannotthink if you are in discomfort. At allevents, that is a very valid excuse to-day. Now, I fear, the good folks who calledthis flower columbine made a mistake.That name rightly belongs to the Euro-pean cousin of the American native. Ifyou examined the Old World flower, Ihave no doubt that, with no unreasonableamount of imagination, you would see asort of resemblance to five doves lookingat each other—the petals, with their short,curved spurs, forming the bodies of thebirds, and the sepals the wings. But herethe spurs are too long and too straight tocarry out the similarity, for doves are notlong-tailed birds. However, as we arenever slow to acknowledge our relationshipto our kindred over the water, we will be 15:
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The saxifrage rears its white, yellow or red flowers through all the rocky pasture-lots. f54 The Outing Magazine satisfied to call the flower columbine.Learned scientists name the plant and allof the same genus aquilegia, from justsuch another fancied likeness of the flowerto an eagles foot; and, here again, theEuropean species more nearly conformsto such a type, only eagles have four talons,and columbine has five spurs. However,we will not be hypercritical. The Europeanaquilegia you may find in nearly everyold-fashioned garden, for it was a greatfavorite with our grandmothers, beforethe days of abnormal chrysanthemums. Ithas a second name, vulgaris, but ofcourse there is no insidious suggestion.Why, however, did the Father of Botany,the learned Linnaeus, call our flower ca-nadensis? Surely he might have knownthat the less cannot contain the greater,and this aquilegia has a far wider rangethan the Dominion. Perhaps it was inconsequence of that curious fashion of thedays of Linnaeus by

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