| Missouri. State Horticultural Society - 1890 - 482 pages
...members for the loss from work of the few pleasant hours spent in such societies. It has been said that he who makes two blades of grass grow where but one grew before is a benefactor to the human race. Is not he a benefactor to the human race who makes two fruit trees... | |
| Connecticut. Bureau of Labor Statistics - 1890 - 238 pages
...been mainly depended upon for the business centering in Fair Haven. It has been justly said that " he who makes two blades of grass grow where but one grew before, is a public benefactor." The State may well honor the men who have made the barren waste under the deep... | |
| Jerome Walker - 1890 - 444 pages
...utilizing materials which are readily available, deserves something of the credit belonging to one who makes two blades of grass grow where but one grew before." — Food in its Relations to Persona! and Pubhc Health, a paper read at the annual meeting of the American... | |
| Horace Mann - 1891 - 604 pages
...by the number of all the citizens! The saying of Adam Smith has been quoted thousands of times, that he who makes two blades of grass grow where but one grew before is a public benefactor. But he who doubles the amount of knowledge belonging to a community is a public... | |
| Horace Mann - 1891 - 608 pages
...and the accompanying volumes ; for which I am greatly obliged to you. If, as Adam Smith said, a man who makes two blades of grass grow where but one grew before be a "public benefactor," of what honor is he worthy who diffuses ideas regarding health and life among... | |
| American Institute of Instruction - 1892 - 292 pages
...school, in connection with farm life, affords us the best possible means of imparting it to the child. If he who makes two blades of grass grow where but one grew before is counted a benefactor of his race, then he who has been taught to hoe a hill of potatoes so as to double... | |
| American Institute of Instruction - 1892 - 292 pages
...school, in connection with farm life, affords us the best possible means of imparting it to the child. If he who makes two blades of grass grow where but one grew before is counted a benefactor of his race, then he who has been taught to hoe a hill of potatoes so as to double... | |
| 1893 - 286 pages
...or we will have improved upon them to such an extent that they may be willing to accept our ideas. If he who makes two blades of grass grow where but one grew before is a public benefactor, is he not doubly entitled to the plaudits of the world who abridges distance,... | |
| Royal Horticultural Society (Great Britain) - 1893 - 496 pages
...from a few acres of Violets, Strawberries, or Lavender. that that man deserves well of his country who makes two blades of grass grow where but one grew before. On the same principle, the directors who can make it their business to produce a handsome return of... | |
| Montana state irrigation convention (Helena)) - 1893 - 64 pages
...constitutionality; second, as to its advisability. We all agree that there is no better man on earth than ihe man who makes two blades of grass grow where but one grew before; and, if we can make a thousand grow where none grew before, that certainly is a benefit which undoubtedly... | |
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