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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
THE HORTICULTURIST AS KING 
Address of C. S. Harrison, at the Annual Meeting of the Minnesota 
Horticultural Society, December 7, 1915. 
OME of the promises regarding our future stagger 
us with their vastness. 
“To him that overcometh will I grant to sit 
with me in my throne.” But how is it down here? 
“Thou crownest him with riches and honor. Thou hast 
the lightning stroke which shivered the mighty oak. 
Little knew he that here was a giant at play waiting to 
be tamed and harnessed so he could be the most obedient 
servant—ready at the master’s beck to leap a continent, 
dive under an ocean, draw heavy trains, and run acres 
Gathering Yates Apples in November in the orchards of J. 0. Kelly & Sons, Jeff, Alabama. 
put all things under his feet.” 
Into fields where feet of angels come not, we are 
chosen as partners of the Heavenly Father to make this 
a more fruitful and beautiful world. 
In our life work much depends on our attitude regard¬ 
ing our calling. We can plod like an ox or like Mark- 
ams semi-brute man with the hoe and make that the 
badge of servitude to toil, or we can make it a wand in 
a magician’s hand to call forth radiant forms of beauty 
from the somber earth to smile upon us and load the air 
with fragrance. We can live down in the basement of 
Horticulture or in the upper story. 
Man is coming to his own. The savage trembled at 
of machinery. Man reaches out his wand and steam, 
gas, and oil rise up to do his will. 
If, with the advance of civilization, he wants beautiful 
things to adorn person or home, he finds subterranean 
gardens of precious gems almost priceless in value— 
gems that are immortels—flowers that never fade- 
prophets all of the “glory to be revealed.” 
You have heard of the marvelous Persian garden of 
gems—four hundred feet in length and ninety feet wide 
-made to imitate the most beautiful blooms of earth. 
It cost millions upon millions. Do you know that it is 
in your power, will the advance of floriculture, to create 
gardens far more resplendent in beauty—great gardens 
