 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Henry Doty Maxson - 1893 - 344 pages
...place-makers! It is a very widely -accepted beatitude. It has been said that he is a public benefactor who makes two blades of grass grow where but one grew before. And he is thought to have deserved about as well from the needy world who makes two government offices... | |
 | Iowa State Horticultural Society - 1894 - 510 pages
...investigations will be continued. WOMEN AS HORTICULTURISTS. BY MRS. HERBERT OSBORN, AMES. If it is true that he who makes two blades of grass grow where but one has grown is a benefactor to the human race, surely they who add to the world's supply of luscious,... | |
 | Ontario. Legislative Assembly - 1895 - 858 pages
...property, the other to gain popularity by adding new creations in science and agriculture. It has been said that " he who makes two blades of grass grow where but one grew before is a public benefactor." So to the second class belongs the greater credit. Contentment is a condition fit only for a snail.... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1896 - 820 pages
...the tree. We have, therefore, no ground for complaint against tone or tenet of "A Study in Wives." If he who makes two blades of grass grow where but one grew before is a benefactor to the world, she who makes one good man better, one strong man stronger, serves her age... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1896 - 848 pages
...the tree. We have, therefore, no ground for complaint against tone or tenet of "A Study in Wives." If he who makes two blades of grass grow where but one grew before ia a benefactor to the world, she who makes one good man better, one strong man stronger, serves her... | |
 | Ontario. Department of Crown Lands - 1897 - 126 pages
...a comfortable house and suitable barn erected, and about forty acres cleared and plowed. Surely if he who makes two blades of grass grow where but one grew before deserves the thanks of his fellow man, this effort on the part of the Ontario Government to test in... | |
 | 1898 - 976 pages
...secure It, Is not only bettering himself but is as much a benefactor to the human race as Is the man who makes two blades of grass grow where but one grew before. In many localities conditions are so favorable that with very little exertion and a little judgment,... | |
 | Merchants' Exchange of St. Louis - 1899 - 988 pages
...access of this city an immense army oí people who can derive satisfaction from the adage that the man who makes two blades of grass grow where but one grew before is a benfactor of his country. In agriculture alone there is a mine of wealth within this section, and what... | |
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It has been wisely said, that he who makes two blades of grass grow where but one grew before, is a public benefactor. 
