NEW CREATIONS IN PLANT LIFE 



the depths of the cool dark forest, or those 

 more daring ones that witchingly display their 

 dainty brilliancy in the gardens of the town. 

 It is his close and intimate touch with 

 nature, united with his keen sense of the 

 fitness of things ever manifest in all he 

 does, that enables him to deal with these 

 flowers quite as a painter with his landscape. 

 He makes them not only in a certain beau- 

 tiful sense interpret his own thoughts, giving 

 to the world in the completed whole that which 

 he has long been planning in his own brain, 

 but he fits them unerringly into their natural 

 place. It is, if you will, the blending of the 

 artisan and the artist. 



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