Art Out-of-Doors 
is meant by their nearer or more distant 
degrees of relationship — how and why they 
are grouped in what may be called families, 
clans, communities, and nations. And then, 
when a simple handbook can be so used 
that after examining a plant we can find its 
name, all its other characteristics may be 
read at a glance. Finding its name, we 
discover the manner of its growth, the traits 
which ally it with its relatives and those 
which constitute its personality, the regions 
where it is common or rare, the nature of 
the spots in which it may be sought most 
hopefully, and the seasons of its blooming 
and its fruiting. All this is worth knowing, 
even at the cost of dealing for the moment 
with the very ugliest of Latin names. And 
if a man or a child has any aesthetic suscepti- 
bility, his field of enjoyment will be greatly 
widened by such knowledge. If a child 
finds a rosy arethusa with twin blossoms, will 
his pleasure in its beauty be decreased by 
knowing that twin-flowered arethusas are 
very rare? Or if he discovers that the 
pretty little bunch-berry which carpets some 
recess in the woods is first-cousin to the big 
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