PART III THE SCHOOL 



"Who kneels to learn the lily's shining creed 

 Grows like the lilies, liker Christ indeed, 

 Thou, of all these, whom God has set apart, 

 High priest of nature in the shrine of art, 

 Thine are the secrets of the inner shrine: 

 To litt the veil from Nature's face to thine; 

 To speak with reverent awe the magic spell 

 That bids the wonder be a miracle; 

 To break the tyrant chains of red and blue 

 That binds the flower to its ancestral hue; 

 To bid the royal purple to unfold; 

 Upon the native pansy's gown of gold. 

 To touch her velvet robes and bid them be 

 All colors that the rainbow held in fee, 

 These are the highest, holiest deeds of man, 

 Completing what the soul of God began, 

 A gracious gift that from a golden store 

 Enriches beauty grown from more to more." 



SAMUEL J. ALEXANDER. 



CHAPTER X 

 THE PLANT SCHOOL 



Many, many thousands of plant pupils are each year 

 enrolled in the Burbank plant school at Santa Rosa, Cali- 

 fornia. They are not there to produce fruit, nuts, and 

 vegetables for food, or flowers for beauty alone, but to be 

 developed, educated, trained, and thus to gain new habits 



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