(Extract from personal letter from Superintendent William 

 Scott, Department of Floriculture Pan-American 

 Exposition.) 



"And so ends the wonderful exhibit of Gladiolus which you 

 have made for us at the Pan-American Exposition. To say 

 that your display has been a great attraction for the past two 

 months does not begin to express what your display really has 

 been. It has been the star feature of our horticultural exhibits, 

 and from the expressions that I have heard from hundreds of 

 visitors it has been one of the greatest attractions of the whole 

 Exposition." —WILLIAM SCOTT. 



"You will expect me to speak to you to-night of that border- 

 land of mystery, where man is permitted to join hands with the 

 Great Creator of the Universe in guiding those forces of which 

 he knows so little; until the highest flights of human fancy, 

 picturing seeming impossibility, in exquisite beauty and never- 

 ending variation in form and color, sink into comparative insig- 

 nificance, as the veil is slowly lifted before our expectant and 

 wondering gaze." 



H. H. GROFF, before Waterloo Horticultural Society, 

 and Provincial Association of Fruit Growers. 



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(From personal letter by Mr. A. T. De La Mare, publisher of 

 Florist's Exchange, New York, zvho inspected the exhibit.) 

 "We are glad to see that you have done so well at the Pan- 

 American Exposition in medals, certificates and prizes; this is 

 a splendid record well earned and well deserved." 



—A. T. DE LA MARE. 



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"As civilization progresses higher and higher, the human 

 taste for beauty and fine arts improves more and more, and I 

 believe that the time may come when the world of beauty will 

 entirely fall into the hands of those who are exponents of 

 Nature." —HENRY IZAWA. 



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