...calling, and persuade every one to love and practice this fine art. If that man is a public benefactor who makes two blades of grass grow where only one grew before, much more so is he who pours around our homes the beauties of fruits, vegetables and flowers. Who teaches...

...the envy or criticisms of some pigmy cynic who lives only for himself. It has been said that ' ' he who makes two blades of grass grow where only one grew before, is a benefactor." There is certainly solid philosophy in the declaration, and the deduction should be...

...developing intellect, the growing amenities, and the material increase in possessions of his patrons. If he who makes two blades of grass grow where only one grew before, is a benefactor of the race, as true political economy teaches, then how much more is he a factor in the...

...something of what can be effected in this region in the way of forest culture. If he is a benefactor who makes two blades of grass grow where only one grew before, how much greater benefactors are they, the influence of whose example will, in a few years at the most,...

...fogotten — but for the interests of the people and the credit of the nation. On the principle that he who makes two blades of grass grow where only one grew before is a national benefactor, so it is that in our profession, as, indeed, in any other, he who by his study...

...true that the ways of peace and honest independence are glorious privileges; and if the man is blessed who makes two blades of grass grow where only one grew before, the artisan should be no less favoured whose ingenuity overcomes the obstructions in the path of science,...

...Morley at this day indebted for the enjoyment of comforts unknown to their forefathers. Verily, if he who makes " two blades of grass grow where only one grew before," is to be esteemed as a benefactor to his country, we may well regard with admiration and praise the men...

...enjoy their existence, at least in the sense of mental enjoyments. It has been said of old, that he who makes two blades of grass grow, where only one grew before, is a benefactor to his fellow-men. Though Corinth produced what may be called Birmingham and Sheffield...

...throughout our own country and in distant lands. If it be true, as has been said, that he is a benefactor who makes two blades of grass grow where only one grew before, how much more is he a benefactor who infuses new energies into a whole people, doubling in tea thousand...

...don't, the fault will be in the citizens, not the Building Committee. Some one has remarked that he who makes two blades of grass grow where only one grew before is a benefactor ; I think be who builds a school-house where it is wanted, and a school-house like this,...