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 fife occupy the same 

 house, so to speak, and intermingle in most 

 curious fashion. The animal life lives upon 



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