ABSTRACT

J\FTER man had given up his pastoral life and settled down to tilling the soil-or letting his woman do it for him-he noticed one day that she was digging in the grass at the edge of their clear-

ing. When she rose, she held in her hand a bit of earth in which were the roots of a little plant, bright with flowers. She crossed to their hut and stopping near the doorway , scooped a hole with her finger and carefully put the plant back in the ground. Watching her, the man thought she might better be at her hoeing and grunted. But the woman looked at the flower and smiled. The first ornamental garden in the world had been made.