THE WAYSIDE CATALOG WAS CHOSEN ! 
O RECORD the progress of horticulture, a 
copy of this catalogue as printed in 1940 was 
placed in the Crypt of Civilization at Oglethorpe, 
Atlanta, Georgia. 
Dr. Jacobs of Oglethorpe University created a 
Crypt of Civilization to preserve in it the Twentieth 
Century’s scientific and cultural progress for the 
dwellers on earth some 6000 years from now. To be 
opened May twenty-eight, year 8113, high noon. 
. The Crypt of Civilization is a room twenty feet 
long, ten feet wide and ten feet high, beneath the Ogle- 
thorpe Administration Building and enclosed by granite 
three feet thick on all sides. In it have been stored nearly 
a million pages of literature, ranging from the Corpus 
Juris Civilis to the Improved American Joke Book. It 
contains working models of trains, ships, airplanes and 
automobiles, miniature models of clothing styles of 1940, 
bottles of Coca-Cola and beer. Also in the Crypt are re- 
cordings of all the speeches of President Roosevelt, 
eleven hours of them; addresses by Mussolini and Hitler, 
and motion-picture films of various present-day events, 
such as the German army entering Austria and some of 
the recent Oglethorpe commencements. There are musi- 
_ eal recordings of grand opera and sweet swing. The book 
pages have been reduced to microfilm to save space, and 
sealed in glass jars, surrounded by asbestos and placed 
in stainless-steel cylinders. 
