78 PHENOMENA OF PLANT-LIFE. 



And thus we are brought round to the point from 

 which we started. Every ending is a beginning ; 

 everything completed is a pedestal for something 

 then to be commenced. All things are forever striv- 

 ing to begin over again. We rise every morning 

 with new hopes, new desires, new resolves. Would 

 that our new beginnings were always as fully replen- 

 shed as that of the plant in its little seed I 



