NEW CREATIONS IN PLANT LIFE 
indeed, curative, value of absolute physical 
relaxation. 
Work is always awaiting him, always, day 
in and day out throughout the entire year ; for 
he labors under a sky so genial that some 
gentle life of nature is stirring the whole 
twelvemonth long—some life in whose creation 
or transformation his hands are having a part. 
The workmen must be superintended day by 
day, even hour by hour, for this work is like 
none other—there is no pleasant smoothness 
and perfection of routine; for at any moment 
may arise a problem so urgent of solution that 
the whole day’s toil may need alteration to 
suit its insistent conditions. It is a thousand 
to one, too, that no man may solve the prob- 
lem but the master, the one whom these 
gentle workmen revere as few employers are 
ever revered. Possibly even before he has had 
his breakfast, he may be seen passing swiftly 
out of the house and making his way with 
rapid strides to some distant part of the 
grounds, where he may have seen from his 
window some new workman doing precisely 
the opposite from what he had been told to do. 
Many a time, in his ceaseless search for the 
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