NEW CREATIONS IN PLANT LIFE 
species may be made to combine and produce 
a new species wholly unknown to the world 
before, who shall predict what may be accom- 
plished for the world along this line? Limit- 
less fields of material progress are thus opened 
for all future plant-breeders, vast possibilities 
for the adornment and the enrichment of the 
earth. If a man deserve lasting credit who 
causes two blades of grass to grow where but 
one grew before, what shall be said of one 
who, beyond all else he has accomplished, has 
added new life to the vegetable kingdom and 
opened thus a thousand avenues to others? 
New fruits, as yet untasted by man, fruits of 
the vine and the shrub and the tree; new 
grains, new grasses, new trees, new flowers 
are to appear along the paths he has blazed 
through the regions of the Unknown. 
In the great depths of the ocean, the abyssal 
depths, some miles below the surface, many 
strange forms of life are being brought to light 
by the deep-sea dredging of the biologists. 
Among the lowest forms of life is one where 
animal and vegetable life occupy the same 
house, so to speak, and intermingle in most 
curious fashion. The animal life lives upon 
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