1891.] ESSAYS. 141 



The Columbian Discovery then has given to the world benefits 

 which (!aunot be overlooked. It has made of horticulture a 

 broad rather than a limited art, it has instructed the older 

 governments scientifically as well as practically. It has opened 

 wide her storehouses from Cape Cod to Puget Sound ; from 

 the Arctic shores to the Cape Horn of South America, we have 

 withheld nothing that would aid in research or industry. With 

 a record of but four centuries, we are fast approaching the hour 

 when no one will think of us as new, but as old, because results 

 have been attained so speedily, and so numberless have been 

 the benefits we have conferred upon the world's horticulture. 



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