NEW CREATIONS IN PLANT LIFE 



that happy day when man shall offer his 

 brother man, not bullets and bayonets, but 

 richer grains, better fruits and fairer flowers. 



"These lines were penned among the heights 

 of the Sierras, while resting on the original 

 material from which this planet was made. 

 Thousands of ages have passed, and it still 

 remains unchanged. In it no fossils or any 

 trace of past organic life are ever found, nor 

 could any exist, for the world- creative heat 

 was too intense. Among these dizzy heights 

 of rock, ice -cleft, glacier -plowed and water- 

 worn, we stand face to face with the first and 

 latest pages of world creation, for now we see 

 also tender and beautiful flowers adding grace 

 of form and color to the grisly walls, and far 

 away down the slopes stand the giant trees, 

 oldest of all living things, embracing all of 

 human history ; but even their lives are but as 

 a watch -tick since the stars first shone on 

 these barren rocks, before the evolutive forces 

 had so gloriously transfigured the face of our 

 planet home." 



At the dedication of a park which had been 

 given to the children of a neighboring town, 

 in the suburbs of San Francisco, in memory 



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