NEW CREATIONS IN PLANT LIFE 
in number and of short duration. In thirty- 
five years he has not taken a vacation of a 
month’s time at one period. He has never 
visited the East but three times, and then 
only on hurried trips. He has been invited to 
go to Europe to be the guest of prominent 
scientific men, but he has never been able to 
accept on account of the length of time he 
would be compelled to remain away from 
his work. His recreations are few in number, 
but no one finds keener enjoyment than he 
in such ones as he chooses,—a small party 
of jolly friends, a visit to some friend in a 
near-by town, a romp with a little child, a day’s 
wandering, at rare intervals, amidst the city’s 
kaleidoscopic scenes, a long, strong tramp up 
the mountains, a day at the sea of which 
he is so passionately fond,— these are his chief 
stands for recuperation in the long, hard battle. 
And yet it is not a wholly apt figure; for 
his life is rather one series of noble triumphs, 
all adding to the sum of human happiness. 
He is particularly fond of the society of 
young people, and he is held in the highest 
esteem by them; with them he steadily 
renews his youth; he is of the type that never 
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