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slowly driving his progeny hack into natural lines. 
There is a reason lor all of this. Nature lights arli- 
liciality overwhelmingly. Into the cracks and crannies 
of the plank-and-naii-made-liouse ol' man she sends her 
worms, her wind, her rain, her heat and cold laying on 
and destroying. She assails bitterly any unnatural re¬ 
arrangement of her elements. Over the scars on her 
surface made by diggers alter stone, iron and coal, she 
throws with marvelous rapidity a mantle of new growth, 
new trees, new shrubs, new grasses and new llowers 
until she wipes away the scar of artificial creation. 
And just so nature evolutes back into nature. The 
grandson of the man who built the plank-and-nail square 
and unsightly house amidst the stump strewn ruins of 
the beautiful forest linds himself by some magic hand 
to him unknown, unconsciously guided into re-forestra- 
tion. As the hypnotist drives his subject to actions of 
which he is unaware, the still stealthy hand of nature 
forces men back into their natural channels. 
Running water bears more strongly against the rock 
which impedes its flow than upon the bottom of the 
stream which supports it. Man’s unsightly, uncouth and 
artificial houses on the breast of nature are relentlessly 
destroyed by nature seeking to reconstruct her into 
placid, natural landscapes. Culture, refinement and 
education in human souls ultimately makes them realize 
that and know the happiest and sweetest home is the one 
on the breast of nature and litted into her lines of beauty. 
America is an infant. Two generations back the 
grandfathers of us of the Central West destroyed the 
forests there and made the land into granneries and we 
of the third and fourth generation are putting the forests 
Rack again. We are making the stream lines of nature’s 
beauty over again. 
Rut all of us are not doing so as yet. The appreciation 
of these truths has not yet filtered down through all the 
strata of society. The educated and refined man of 
means understands and builds understanding^, but the 
man of toil who rushes from his meagre home to his 
steel mill and back again day after day, has not had the 
time to think about beauty and nature because of the 
greater demand upon his time in the fight for bread. If 
America is to become what she once was from nature’s 
stand point, all the people must learn not to lay desecrat¬ 
ing hand upon nature’s growths. 
The men interested in the nursery business in America 
have done their best to bring this thing about. Not over 
5,000 men of the hundred million who inhabit America 
have up to this time had a business impulse to provide 
for the promulgation of this doctrine. 
To this little army of 5,000 nurserymen there has been 
added during the last year 600,000 more recruits. 
Mooseheart is now in the nursery business and thereby 
has thrown the influence of 600,000 common men into 
this effort because Mooseheart believes in it. She be¬ 
lieves that education is raising vary rapidly the standard 
of intellectuality in America. She believes that educa¬ 
tion is making demands upon the souls of people lor 
more beauty. She believes that the pioneer state ol 
America is past and that we are entering into an era of 
art, culture and more beautiful surroundings for our 
homes and our children. She believes the 600,000 work¬ 
ing men are being educated to understand the benefit ol 
beauty in the lives of children reared amidst flowers, 
shrubs and having their play hours under broad shelter¬ 
ing trees rather than in the caked and muddy streets of 
the factory village. Mooseheart proposes through her 
publicity means and her connection with this army of 
members of the Loyal Order of Moose to preach this doc- 
'trine. She knows that \v ithin a year or so where you 
look up the row of barracks in some small town-ugly 
dirty houses all alike in a row up the hill side and that 
out of the 20 of these houses, 10 are garnished with trees 
and flowers and shrubs, are neat and clean and cared 
for and inviting to the eye, while the other 10 retain their 
present grimy appearance—she will know that the 10 are 
inhabited by nurserymen and the other 10 by workmen 
who have not as yet been thoroughly instructed. 
I believe that Moosedom's entry into the nursery field 
will ultimately increase the demand for cultivated nur¬ 
sery products in America in the same proportion as she 
■increases the number of men interested in the growth of 
plants and shrubs. In other words, 1 believe that we 
shall be the means of increasing the market 5000 times 
over what it is today. The response our members have 
made to our entry into this field cannot be over estimated. 
While it is true many of them will buy our own product, 
it is also true many of them will buy in their own home 
towns. 
And so Moosedom becomes a nurseryman. She be¬ 
lieves the nurserymen in the United States would be bet¬ 
ter off if there were some school from which we could 
produce young men who had been scientifically trained 
in the propagation, cultivation and sale of cultivated trees 
and shrubs. She believes America is big enough and 
brainy enough and has enough fertility to produce her 
own trees and shrubs without spending so much of her 
money for European labor and European steam boat hire 
to import newly propagated shrubs and trees into this 
country for cultivation. She believes that the nursery¬ 
men of America will understand that she will not over 
load the market with nurserymen because of her pro¬ 
ducing so many graduates that all cannot get jobs. That 
would bring injury and is therefore out of the question, 
but she believes that the nurserymen of America will 
co-operate with her in putting the nursery business upon 
a more solid foundation. 
Most of the men to whom 1 am talking today worked 
their way up in the nursery business from the time they 
did budding out and the swing of the hoe on the nursery 
hill side. They, no doubt, feel that many of the good 
years of their lives were spent in learning the elementary 
principles of the business in their own university of 
hard knocks. You know how much greater your 
efficiency would have been and how much greater each of 
your present plants would be if you could have had your 
education in the business condensed into three or lour 
years of careful preparation, and gone into the business 
thoroughly schooled at flic outset. 
And so we who are about to live w ith you, salute you. 
We invite your co-operation in this movement, feeling 
thoroughly assured that there is much to be gained, not 
only to our fellow associates in the nursery business in 
America but in the whole structure ol society as well. 
