ON THE REWARDS OF PATIENCE 



ter almost of expectation, and so constant and so 

 varied have been the contributions of willing 

 helpers that these expectations have seldom been 

 disappointed. 



Among my regular collectors residing in places 

 that have not hitherto been thoroughly botanized, 

 I must name in particular my highly esteemed 

 friend, Senor Jose D. Husbands of Chile, who has 

 sent me almost numberless new species for trial 

 from the southern half of South America. 



For me Senor Husbands has scaled forbidding 

 mountain peaks, waded rivers, visited islands, 

 traveled through wild arid deserts, even risking 

 his life among barbaric natives who have never 

 been subdued and who do not always give the 

 traveler hospitable welcome. The value of the 

 materials that thus have been secured would be 

 beyond estimate. 



Methods and Objects Sought 



To give details as to the methods by which I 

 sought to blend the qualities of the plants that 

 furnished material for the new investigations 

 when the experiment gardens were fairly in opera- 

 tion, would be to repeat what has been fully told 

 in earlier volumes of this work. 



The record of the results of these experiments 

 makes up the main bulk of all these volumes. So 

 it obviously is not desirable that I should attempt 



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