14 PLANNING AND PLANTING 



writers, inspired by the selfsame Power, should 

 have in many cases reached the climax of their 

 writing and the supreme beauty of their thought 

 when they have used the flower as a medium of 

 expressing their otherwise unutterable thoughts. 



The writer of that Book which was probably 

 the first to be reduced to writing of all the books 

 of the Bible, namely Job, gave utterance to a most 

 profound truth with a depth of suggestiveness 

 when he said: 'Man that is born of woman is of 

 few days and full of trouble. He cometh forth like 

 a flower and is cut down.* 



What a picture of life ! 'Like a flower.' Man- 

 men like flowers. Yes, like flowers for variety, 

 like flowers in our positions in life, in our popu- 

 larity, in our service to the world. There is the 

 timid 'Violet' man who hides away in remote spots, 

 and while blessing all who come in contact with 

 him, never projects himself actively into the 

 affairs of the world about; there are the multi- 

 tudinous 'Dandelion' men, without imagination, 

 without purpose, contributing little but trouble 

 to the State and to society ; or again the 'Canadian 

 Thistle' man, handsome, arrogant, but deadly 

 vicious, a law unto himself, a menace to man and 

 beast ; the showy 'Chrysanthemum' man ; the aris- 

 tocratic 'Rose' man; the cultured 'Orchid' man. 



Like a flower he comes forth. Some only to bud 1 , 

 when the frost ends their career, some to come to 



