NEW CREATIONS IN PLANT LIFE 



"Ignorance is the only unpardonable sin." 



"The man who cannot say no, never gets 

 the opportunity to say yes." 



"The greatest happiness in the world is to 

 make others happy; the next greatest is to 

 make them think." 



On the wall above his head where he sits at 

 meat is a little placard which reads the 

 words from Emerson: 



"Write it on your heart that every day is 

 the best day in the year. . . . No man has 

 learned anything rightly until he knows that 

 every day is Doomsday. . . . Today is a 

 king in disguise. Today always looks mean to 

 the thoughtless, in the face of a uniform 

 experience that all good and great and happy 

 actions are made up precisely of those blank 

 todays. Let us not be deceived, let us unmask 

 the king as he passes." 



No man could have done all the marvelous 

 acts he has accomplished in the ennoblement 

 of the earth unless he had had a deep, passion- 

 ate love for all that is beautiful. Not all the 

 years of unremitting study and research and 

 tremendous toil have dulled, in the slightest 

 degree, this love for the beautiful, whether it 



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