NEW CREATIONS IN PLANT LIFE 
the depths of the cool dark forest, or those 
more daring ones that witchingly display their 
dainty brilliancy in the gardens of the town. 
It is his close and intimate touch with 
nature, united with his keen sense of the 
fitness of things ever manifest in all he 
does, that enables him to deal with these 
flowers quite as a painter with his landscape. 
He makes them not only in a certain beau- 
tiful sense interpret his own thoughts, giving 
to the world in the completed whole that which 
he has long been planning in his own brain, 
but he fits them unerringly into their natural 
place. It is, if you will, the blending of the 
artisan and the artist. 
