NEW CREATIONS IN PLANT LIFE 



The new cactus will not be raised to sell. 

 It is not at this time fully ready, for while the 

 main end has been reached, other work in it 

 must be done before it begins its career. As 

 soon as it is finished, any man with a few feet 

 of earth in the corner of some city back yard, 

 any man with a garden in the country, any 

 man with acres which have lost their fertility 

 or with large areas on mountain or desert 

 which have been long abandoned, may be- 

 come a sharer in the fruits of this act. For 

 here, as in all that he has ever done, the 

 supreme purpose of his life looms up, colossal 

 in its contrast with the mean selfishness of 

 man : He has done all for the advancement of 

 the race. 



This fearsome dreaded foe of the race has 

 been conquered, the times of little rain are 

 set at naught, the great flame -hearted sun 

 itself, burning its mighty way across the 

 blistering desert is defied, the whole desert 

 and arable regions of the globe by the act of 

 one man may become a limitless reservoir of 

 food. 



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