NEW CREATIONS IN PLANT LIFE 
put a new creation before the world. The new 
and improved varieties were sold to bring him 
revenue for the further prosecution of his 
work. The sums for which they sold were 
ridiculously small, considering the time con- 
sumed in their production, often years of the 
most patient study and experimentation, and 
the large revenues that were derived from the 
new creations by the dealers purchasing them. 
Perhaps from one hundred dollars, at the start, 
up to five hundred would be an average. Or- 
ders soon began coming from ‘Europe, where 
he gradually became better known, where, 
indeed, he was appreciated as he had never 
been in his own country. 
His income rose steadily, but it did not 
match his outlay. There were laborers’ wages 
to pay, supplies to be bought, funds provided 
for paying for the services of collectors in for- 
eign lands, on the lookout for new kinds of 
plants. His reputation was advancing, but 
year by year he was falling behind and en- 
croaching more and more upon the store set 
by for the rainy day. 
Opposition now came from many quarters. 
Not only did his friends see the fulfilment of 
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