EDITORIAL AND GENERAL 



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The Holy Grass at Arcadia's Door. 



Mr. William H. Hoyt. a well known 

 and proficient botanist of Stamford, 

 calls our attention to the Holy Grass 

 (Savastana odorata) growing in a small 

 space by the roadside a few rods west 

 of Arcadia. 



In northern Europe this grass is 



strewn before churches ; whence the 

 name, Holy Grass. 



In reply to an acknowledgement of 

 this information, Mr. Hoyt writes : 



"It gives me pleasure to know that 

 you found that species of grass inter- 

 esting. It could not grow in a more 

 appropriate place than at your door. 

 There is no form of holiness better 

 than that which invites men to think." 



THE HOLY GRASS NEAR ARCADIA. 



Luther Burbank and the Carnegie 

 Institution. 



Everybody knows Luther Burbank 

 of Santa Rosa, California. But those 

 whose acquaintaince with him has been 

 obtained through the sensational news- 

 papers know of him as the "wizard" 

 and by other silly and misleading 

 titles. Our readers, and others who 

 have an intelligent interest in nature, 

 know him to be one of the most hard- 

 working, most skillful and successful 

 horticulturists. He is a master of prac- 

 tical work with plants, and the im- 

 proved varieties that he has produced 

 are many and important. 



Every one knows of Andrew Car- 

 negie who has likewise been exten- 

 sively exploited in periodicals. Many 

 persons in connection with his contri- 

 butions for the good of mankind know 

 him as the giver of libraries in many 

 parts of the country. Scientists, and 

 others, zealous for the promotion of a 

 knowledge of nature, think of him, 

 chiefly perhaps and surely most appre- 

 ciatively, as the founder, in 1902, of the 



