NEW CREATIONS IN PLANT LIFE 



possible, the work is delegated ; still, very much 

 of it cannot be given over to other hands but 

 must be under the immediate eye of the one 

 who has conceived the plan, who alone knows 

 how it should be developed, who alone can tell 

 the proper moment for action should a 

 radical change at any time appear necessary. 



When the evening comes, it is a worn and 

 tired figure that curls up upon a low couch in 

 his little living-room, — tired physically no less 

 than mentally, many a time worn to the very 

 verge of exhaustion. An hour or so he lies 

 silently resting, not asleep, for his mind is 

 eternally turning upon the work before him, 

 but relaxing in so far as possible. Even now 

 he is not left to himself; for the messenger 

 boy may still reach him; special-delivery 

 letters come by night as well as day; tele- 

 grams have no heart. 



But by nine o'clock, if all is well, he is in 

 bed — the day is over. Another one will not 

 be long delayed, fuller, it may be, of care. Yet 

 all the days in this man's life are rich in the 

 splendid consciousness of duty done, glorified 

 by the joy of having helped the great primal 

 forces of Nature to help mankind. 



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