NEW CREATIONS IN PLANT LIFE 
are in a certain sense similar in character, but, 
at the same time, each is different from each 
other one and each one leads into new and 
untrodden paths. He is preéminently an ob- 
server as well as a man of rare intuition and 
wonderful power of memory. He not only 
notes those essentially obvious characteristics 
which the average man may see, and assigns 
them unerringly to their proper place, but he 
looks further on and deeper into the subtler 
life of nature and, as unerringly, assorts and 
eliminates and assigns. He adds all these 
manifestations of nature to the sum of all his 
experiences, and from them all he draws for 
his material for his own mental furnishing 
and equipment. 
I have ridden with him over the road to 
Sebastopol on fair winter days when the 
earth was green and beautiful, and have 
many a time been struck by the s-wiftness 
with which he would turn from the dis- 
cussion of some deep problem of human 
life to note the peculiar brilliancy of the 
song of some early linnet in the hedge; or to 
point out the fact that the crimson-winged 
blackbird on the fence was tardy this season 
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