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plex emotions of our own restless life and to 
exert a wonderful influence upon it. As with 
the birds, the recognition of these family 
traits and resemblances greatly contributes to 
the pleasure we have in their society. 
What an excellent family the Heath, for 
instance, and how it endears one to them as to 
life-long friends to have pleasant associa- 
tions of years, not only with the blueberries 
and huckleberries of New England pastures, 
but with the manzanita of the Sierras and the 
madrofias of the Coast Range and the Sierra 
Madre. It puts you on intimate terms with 
the family and you will many times gossip 
with the blueberry about the lovely ma- 
drofia of the Western ranges, and when again 
you are riding through the chaparral, the 
blossom of the manzanita shall call up some 
well-beloved blueberry pasture by the sea. 
Again, the barberry of Cape Ann on the lonely 
Dogtown pastures reminds you of the Arizona 
barberry on the desert mountains; the fra- 
gile anemones in the early woods, of the 
pasque-flower on the velvet mesas; and any 
lily may suggest its connection with that 
superb lily of the South-West, the yucca, and 
with the lovely mariposa. 
While plants are characteristic of their en- 
