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day by day his experiments were leading 

 onward toward new plant creations which 

 should beautify the earth and furnish food 

 for the rapidly increasing population of the 

 globe. 



The cottage is now utilized for office purposes, 

 for in the summer of 1906 the comfortable, 

 spacious home which he now occupies was built, 

 across the street and overlooking the home 

 experiment grounds. Here, although the spirit 

 of work pervades the atmosphere, the feeling of 

 good cheer, peace, and tranquillity that ever 

 accompanies the service that uplifts humanity, 

 is very pronounced. 



In person my brother is slight, almost frail, 

 yet possessed of remarkable vitality and power 

 of endurance. A face refined and spiritualized 

 by the fires of enthusiasm and of suffering; the 

 high, broad brow, and the soft brown hair now 

 silvered, are in perfect accord with intense blue 

 eyes that are keen to read to the very soul of 

 things, yet lighten at every token of friendship 

 and of honest appreciation of his work, or 

 twinkle with shy humor. With its old-time sim- 

 plicity his charm of manner lingers with one like 

 the fragrance of flowers. Tender in his nature 

 and overflowing with kindliness, he is strong in 

 his principles and convictions and frankly un- 



