December 5, 1914 



HORTICULTURE 



787 



Beauty is Wealth — Therefore Raise a Lot of It and Be Rich 



The love of the beautiful is iugrained in the soul. It 

 is a prophesy of our resplendent future. For when we 

 stand on the margin of the glorified vastness of the 

 universe, which will rise before us as Canaan rose to the 

 view of Moses on Pisgah, we will find all things created 

 on the lines of harmony and beauty. We find many 

 things to feed the soul as well as the body. A kind 

 Providence looks beyond our material wants to minister 

 to the immortal within us. 



The beautiful dawning of the day which broadens 

 over the earth, uncovering its loveliness, revealing the 

 landscape, forest, and plain, and the glowing sunsets 

 when the western sky is painted with molten gems, the 

 sweetness of the garden and the gentle wooings of 

 Nature are all for the soul. Had God looked simply to 

 feeding the body He might have left out these embel- 

 lishments with which he has adorned the earth. Much 

 of the world's wealth ministers to our higher natures. 

 We might live on in sod or log houses, and eat and toil 

 and sleep and be strong and plod on with no higher 

 aims. But we can't do it. There is that within us 

 which is clamoring for more. 



I have visited many of the estates of the rich and 

 what immense sums are expended for the adornment of 

 home and the home groimds. Every flower which can 

 be made to bloom, every tree and shrub suited to the 

 climate is procured. The most skillful gardener has 

 charge and he is never stinted in his work. And God 

 loves it all and sets the secret forces of Nature to work 

 and there is bloom, beauty and gladness everywhere. 



We need to urbanize the country and the time is not 

 far off when the farm will be a suburban estate on a 

 grand scale. The home will have the comforts of the 

 city with the addition of all out-of-doors — with broader 

 vistas, plenty of room, and no such sense of suffocation 

 as you feel in the city. 



If you have a home and grounds you cannot get rich 

 faster than by raising beauty. I have known instances 

 where men have refused $100 for a silver blue spruce 

 which cost but $5.00. A neighbor has one six years 

 old which flashes its silver sparkles in the sunlight. 

 He paid only $1 for it. I have seen the shapely silver 

 cedar from the Rockies the sheen of which was of daz- 



zling brightness, beautiful and symmetrical. It won 

 exclamations of delight from all that saw it. Money 

 could not buy it. Years ago the Thurlows of Massa- 

 chusetts paid $20 for 1,000 seedlings of the concolor. 

 In 14 years three of them were sold for $100 each. 



There is a Rocky Mountain silver fir growing on the 

 Huunewell grounds at Wellesley, near the college — one 

 of the most cliarming trees that ever grew. Money could 

 not buy it, yet $5 would put a two-foot tree of the same 

 variety on your grounds. I look out of my window 

 and see three trees I myself brought from the moun- 

 tains and gave my son and those trees add hundreds 

 of dollars in value to the place. There is that famous 

 Japanese tree lilac at the Arnold Arboretum at Boston. 

 When 20 years old from seed it measured 30 inches 

 around, three feet from the ground. Could anyone buy 

 it? A gentleman in St. Joseph has a Chinese tree 

 lilac 17 years old. It is eleven inches through and 25 

 feet high. It is destined to be over a foot through and 

 50 feet tall. It is often overwhelmed with great masses 

 of snowy white and sweet-scented flowers. The man 

 would as soon think of selling his home as that tree. 



When we come to perennials we find that there are 

 Golcondas and Eldoradoes in the floral world. Grand 

 Festiva maxima now 60 years old has been worth much 

 more than a million dollars. Other peonies of rare 

 merit bring fabulous prices and as they double every two 

 years you have a splendid investment. A gentleman 

 bought the famed Monsignor Iris which originated in 

 France. He got tliree for three dollars. In four 

 years he had 50 which he sold for $1 each till he had 

 to stop. The Iris is the flower of the future. Take some 

 of the new varieties and they are of bewitching loveliness. 

 And you get ten from one in two years, often more. 

 Flowers, shrubs and trees have not only a cash value but 

 a sentimental value which it is hard to estimate. It 

 goes away beyond dollars. 



So we repeat our slogan. Beauty is wealth. 



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York, Nehr. 



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