THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
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The young man was knighted and afterward appointed 
Governor of Massaehusetts. 
God has neglected no part of the earth. There is 
adornment of some kind even for the desolations. Who 
can describe the splendor of our mountains. What a 
play of light and shade when the clouds ai'e swimming 
over hill and plain. Often in my summer cottage the 
clouds would come over the summit of Nebo and come 
do^^m like a flock of sheep to di'ive away my weariness by 
their reviving presence. 
One time I was in a vallev hemmed in bv the mountains 
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and tlie clouds spi’ead over it with fringes resting on the 
summits. It was like a vast uml)rella and over it all 
there glowed a mysttu’ious light so that it seemed like a 
moved as far as possilde from its primal parentage the 
greater the tendency to break out into a wild rolicking 
abandon of loveliness. Take tin* original single Dahlia. 
What has been tlie lesults of the thousands of efforts for 
its improvement? So that at pn'sent we have several dis¬ 
tinct species so divergent their own mother would not 
know them. The Carnation was a demure and humble 
little flower, but what changes have been made so that she 
now stands out in her queenly beauty. The Phlox was 
like a wild Indian maiden, homely and hardy. Rut in 
the hands of the skilled florist of Europe she comes hack 
to us as a Princess fit to adoi n the courts of kings. The 
Ganna was an insignificant flower mostly prized for its 
foliage, but by skill and patience, one man making 40,000 
Residence of P. D. Berry, Wholescde Nurseryman, Dayton, 0. 
vast opal. It was one of the most resplendent scenes I 
ever beheld. 
Our Slog ax is Realty is Wealth. 
There are Eldoradoes and Golcondas in the fields ol 
Floriculture and Horticulture as well as the mineral 
kingdom. I stood by the original Concord grape vine in 
that quiet village where it was born and could but say 
‘Ymu grand old Mother, you little know your worth or 
realize what you have done. Think of the train loads on 
train loads of fruit which have gone from your branches. 
You have Ixam worth millions.” 
Think of tin* discoveries in fruits. The Wealthy, 
Grimes Golden. .lonathan and Didicious and others which 
have come to reward tlu' toil of llu' orchardisl. Ihese 
])resent siicct.'sses are the promisi's of luliire discoveries. 
It seems to be a law of natuii' that fhe n(‘art‘r a plant is 
to the original fUe greater the tendency to revert. Ke- 
crosses we now have a queen among our flowers. The 
single flow^er is the product of nature, the double flower 
the product of nature and art, joint victory ol God and 
man. What gains have been made in the Peony, 3000 
named sorts and more to follow'. The new^ creations give 
promise of ultimate successes. W hat a scene of splen¬ 
dor a field in bloom presents, billows of fragrance floating 
there until you seem walking in Elysium. There is a 
carpet for the touch of Angels feet. 
And there is the coming flower, the Iris. Oh nothing 
but the flag” cries prejudice “that grew in the swamps. 
Sooner or later we are going to drag people away from 
the swamps and show^ them the grandest family of flowers 
that God has yet given to mortals, a eontinuous bloom 
which glorifies two months of the year, reaching from 
the tiny and brave Pumila to the tall giant which brings 
up the rear. W hat superb blooms, with garments wov¬ 
en from the sunset and rainbow, combining all the beauty 
