NEW CREATIONS IN PLANT LIFE 
shaped themselves gradually, more and more 
in his favor and he went from one odd job 
to another, slowly saving a little money and 
regaining his health. The day came at last 
when he had a bit of a balance in the bank 
and soon after he was able in a small way to 
set up in business for himself. 
He secured a small plot of ground and 
established the nursery which was to become 
famous throughout not only his own state but 
the country at large. His heart was in his 
work now, but there was something else. All 
through these years of early manhood, in the 
midst of discouragement and privation, he 
never let go of the plan of his life—to become 
not merely a raiser of plants but an improver 
and a.creator. Even in those first days, as 
chance offered, he began that wonderful series 
of experiments which has astonished the scien- 
tific men of two hemispheres and established 
an epoch in the life of the vegetable kingdom 
from which the future will reckon. 
One day there came to the young nursery- 
man an order in the filling of which he dis- 
played that boldness of plan and audacity of 
execution which have many a time marked his 
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