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Identifier: outing48newy (find matches)
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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engthening its tongue toreach the honey, until the columbine hasfitted itself for the long-tongued insects,and has actually been a means of inducingcorresponding development in the insectworld. But having doubled up the petals,the advertising poster was destroyed, asfar as its previous use was concerned. Theflower, therefore, took to coloring the sep-als, until it had got them of the shade ofthe former sign-board, and then our colum-bine was complete. It is astounding to think of the resultof this mutual, and yet independent, work-ing. Every shade of color, from pale yel-low to the richest blue; every peculiarityof form, from the flat shape of the butter-cup to the intricate windings of the colum-bine; every degree of sweetness, from theinsipidity of many flowers to the rich su-gariness of honeysuckle; and every kindof scent, from the foul odor which attractsvulgar flies to the most delicate perfumesthat delight the bees, all have proceededfrom this connection of insects with flowers.
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The white beauty of the birches. Photograph by Charles H. Sawyer.

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