NEW CREATIONS IN PLANT LIFE 



indeed, curative, value of absolute physical 

 relaxation. 



Work is always awaiting him, always, day 

 in and day out throughout the entire year ; for 

 he labors under a sky so genial that some 

 gentle life of nature is stirring the whole 

 twelvemonth long — some life in whose creation 

 or transformation his hands are having a part. 

 The workmen must be superintended day by 

 day, even hour by hour, for this work is like 

 none other — there is no pleasant smoothness 

 and perfection of routine ; for at any moment 

 may arise a problem so urgent of solution that 

 the whole day's toil may need alteration to 

 suit its insistent conditions. It is a thousand 

 to one, too, that no man may solve the prob- 

 lem but the master, the one whom these 

 gentle workmen revere as few employers are 

 ever revered. Possibly even before he has had 

 his breakfast, he may be seen passing swiftly 

 out of the house and making his way with 

 rapid strides to some distant part of the 

 grounds, where he may have seen from his 

 window some new workman doing precisely 

 the opposite from what he had been told to do. 

 Many a time, in his ceaseless search for the 



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