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all its own. One is a ruby, another an amethyst. There is an opal. 

 Otif in the distance is an emerald and beyond a sapphire. When 

 the Great Horticulturist drove his plowshare through the field 

 of azure, He strewed the furrows with stars which are like vast 

 bouquets in the hand of the Infinite. Up there we shall see as 

 God sees, with no diminution in ratio to distance, Orion of the 

 Pleiades, with broad landscapes of marvelous loveliness. The 

 distant Milky Way, which lies like a snowdrift far away, will 

 roll up before us into limitless fields of beauty. The Southern 

 Cross will be a floral cross, and every star an immortal. Vast 

 abysses of glory flooded with the mingled effulgence which 

 comes from myriads of suns will lie over all that immensity, and 

 it will be beauty — beauty everywhere. 



Such being our inheritance up there, would it not be a good 

 plan to get in touch with the beautiful down here? Don't you 

 know that you can gather tints from these sun mantles and from 

 the rainbow and weave them into gardens of beauty down here, 

 and brighten up this old, somber world of ours so it will be a 

 prophecy of what lies before? Then peering out of the unseen 

 are myriads of forms of surpassing loveliness human eye has not 

 yet seen, and there they are patiently waiting for you to intro- 

 duce them to the world. 



The President: I think some of you who have listened to 

 this admirable address might wish to question Mr. Harrison in 

 regard to some of the points he has brought out of interest, and 

 we will devote a few minutes to that purpose. 



Mr. Henry Husser: I think the white poplar is a quick 

 growing tree, but it should not be planted near wells or cis- 

 terns on account of growing suckers, and if they grow adjoining 

 a field which you cultivate you will have trouble. 



Mr. Harrison : There are two kinds, and this kind I have been 

 describing will not sprout. This was introduced by Prof. Budd, 

 it has a larger leaf than the other and does not sprout, or 

 at least it does not sprout as readily. The root of the other will 

 go into a well if it can. I have known the cottonwood to go 

 two hundred feet and pump a stream dry. 



Prof. Thos. Shaw : I would like to ask if the Ponderosa pine 

 is a good timber tree, and how large does it grow under favor- 

 able conditions? 



Mr. Harrison : I have had them forty to fifty feet high. It 

 makes good lumber. It warps and twists some and is not quite 

 as nice as white pine, but for finishing lumber it is very valuable 

 indeed. You want to remember one thing that the president 

 said in regard to this pine, you want to look out where you get 

 your seed. I sent to Prof. Green from the foothills of Colorado, 

 and it was not hardy here. You want to get it from a high aiti- 



