96 HOW TO LIVE IN THE COUNTRY 



richer by embodying your hopes and thoughts in 

 improved foods for the human race. 



You have heard a good deal about Mr. Burbank, 

 and perhaps you have seen some of his creations. 

 If he had given us only the Burbank potato that 

 would have been enough, but he is giving us new 

 vegetables and new fruits, so many that we might 

 almost have a Burbank garden and a Burbank or- 

 chard. Others are doing quite as excellent work, 

 and the time is coming when any decent farmer will 

 be ashamed to die without leaving behind him some 

 new product of his brains and skill. 



Mr. T. V. Munson, of Denison, Texas, has given 

 the world a list of at least fifty new sorts of grapes 

 that embody the finest possibilities of all our native 

 wildings and the best foreign sorts. The Rev. Mr. 

 Loomis, of Japan, has added to his missionary work 

 the exploitation of the Japanese persimmon in the 

 United States. I recently heard a minister, seventy- 

 five years old, say, " Well, I have not lived in vain, 

 for I have given the world the best sweet corn yet 

 produced." His garden work seemed surer of being 

 a benison than his pulpit work. 



Now you will say I have not provided for a 

 special flower garden, although I have suggested a 

 big array of the beautiful. I am going to tell you 

 how in a small country home to cultivate some of 

 the choicest flowers with the least possible trouble. 

 Last spring I had three thousand tulips blossoming 



