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of sky and earth. Many of them have a delicious fra¬ 
grance. and some have a radiant and glistening reflex like 
iliat of the richest silk. 
New creations are coming fast. There are some of 
the ne^^'er sorts of immense flowers, ami there is a new 
one which grows from 5 to 6 feet tall. There should be 
a united cam])aign of publicity to push this royal flower 
to the front where it belongs. We want a united effort 
at publicity. Give the same attention to flowers that is 
now given to fowls and animals and you will soon glorify 
the earth. Among the Egyptians the cat was deified. 
With us it is the hen. In India they had the sacred bull 
and now we have the sacred cow which gives her 1000 
jiounds of butter a year. Thousands should be expended 
to proclaim the value of our ornamentals. Here we stand 
on fields, won by others, and it is our province to follow 
up their successes. Pleasure and cash invite you. Grand 
old PYstiva Maxima has been worth over a million. A 
carnation sold for a fabulous sum and that was the be¬ 
ginning of its value. How much is now invested in 
flowers and new greenhouses going up all the time. 
What a change there has been in funerals. 60 years 
ago death was treated as a defeat. The room was filled 
with the odor of paint and varnish of the home made 
coffin. No flowers, no adornment. Now a funeral is 
the celebration of a victory. Flowers everywhere in the 
room and on the casket and by the modern process of 
lowering the remains so that they slowly vanish amid 
banks of flowers, the impression obtains that our depart¬ 
ed have gone to the land “where everlasting sjiring abides 
and never withering flowers.” 
What of the future? We spend most of our time over 
fhere. We do not get through with our work down here. 
Heaven is more than a divan and a song—a loafing place 
with a Halleluiah attachment. “My Father worketh 
hitherto and I work.” U[) there His servants seiwe Him 
night and day. This world of ours has about 80 consti¬ 
tuents. Nearly half of them have been thrown down to 
us by those heavenly tramps, the meteors. The spectro- 
scoj)e tells us what is burning in the distant suns. 
We belong to the United States of America. We also 
belong to the United States of the Universe, all under the 
same laws and government. 
When we stand on the margin of the glorified vastness 
of God and see as God sees, w ith no dimunition of objects 
in ratio to the distance, and the Universe rises before us 
to give its salutations, as Canaan rose to the vision of 
Moses, then we shall feel that w e have come to our own 
and the infinite w ithin us touches the infinite beyond us. 
THE ROSE GROWING INDUSTRY 
By Robert Pyle, President of the Conard & Jones Co., West Grove, Pa. 
Read before the American Association of Nurserymen, 
Cleveland, June 24th. 
Part II. 
He described in succession w itli autochrome reproduc¬ 
tions, the famous Rosarie d’la Hay wuth its seven thou¬ 
sand five hundred different varieties; with its tree roses 
12 feet high with 6 and 6 feet spread; with its avenues of 
rose-covered archways; its laboratory for extracting the 
essence of the rose; its museum containing records of the 
lose in the literature of all languages as used in the pro¬ 
duction of textiles, coins, paintings—indeed wiierever the 
rose has figured in art—with also records tracing the his¬ 
tory of rare roses found in this garden, kinds that dated 
back beyond the beginning of the Christian era, and then 
he showed how cleverly screened from the rose of the 
garden is a little open air theatre with turf seats, bloom¬ 
ing roses for footlights and for stage setting, where M. 
Gravereaux provides esi)ecially of productions treating 
of the rose for the pleasure of his friends from Paris. Es¬ 
pecially favored are the members of the French Rose So¬ 
ciety and the Ladies French Rose Society, as w^ell as dis- 
tingui.shed visitors from abroad. Then show ing a photo¬ 
graph of M. Graveneaux, Mr. Pyle called attention to the 
magnificent work abroad that has been done by amateurs, 
wiien they become sufficiently interested in popularizing 
the rose for ail the people. As for exam])le, M. Grav(‘r- 
eaux him,self an interested amateur, was largely instru¬ 
mental in persuading the authorities of the (hty of Paris 
to establish in one of the public parks, the Ragatelle Gar¬ 
dens in the Rois de Rologne, a magnificent garden of 
three or five acres in extent, wuth a completely represen¬ 
tative collection to w hich are annually added the seedling 
roses invited from the hybridizers of all nations. Another 
feature which lends unusual distinction to this garden is 
the annual meeting of men prominent in the Rose Growl¬ 
ing Industry who are invited as representatives from all 
nations, including England, Ireland, Holland, Germany, 
Luxemburg, France and America, who bring their own 
intimate knowledge of values regarding new’^ roses to 
bear in the decision, u{)on kjnds most w orthy of the gold 
medal and grand prize aw ards so highly cherished by the 
originators. Mr. Pyle illustrated the above with a series 
of photographs lastly showing a group of some twenty 
such judges standing around the Rose Jonkheer J. L. 
Mock, which that season was awarded the gold medal, 
and in a comprehensive summary of European practices, 
the speaker ])ointed out the fact that the difference be¬ 
tween the American and the European industry may be 
seen in the fact that abroad the amateurs with all their 
resources of time and money and enthusiasm have been 
harnessed to the ha})i)y task of popularizing roses. They 
