PRODUCTIVE GARDENING 73 



ing that our miracle, which includes the creation 

 of a truly living plant flower, is so much more 

 wonderful than his? 



Perhaps you are inclined to demur, and to say 

 that your miracle of plant growing is no miracle 

 at all because you had nothing to do with the 

 matter. The growing of the plant, you will per- 

 haps allege, was altogether the work of nature; 

 a work in which you had no share. 



Not so; for had not you supplied the cupful of 

 water, nature would have been as powerless to 

 transform the seed into a flower as you would be 

 to transform the water into a flower without the 

 aid of nature. 



Your feat of jugglery, like that of any other 

 conjurer, required appropriate paraphernalia 

 and the aid of an accomplice. 



You chose as paraphernalia a tiny seed and a 

 cup of water; and for accomplice you chose 

 nature herself. 



You invoked the aid of natural laws, just as 

 every other conjurer must do; and the results you 

 finally achieved were surely more wonderful, 

 more mysterious, more inexplicable than the 

 results of any other kind of trick that human 

 ingenuity could devise. 



In effect, you held a cup of water before your 

 audience, waved your hand over it with magic 



