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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