| Illinois State Horticultural Society - Gardening - 1885 - 502 pages
...paper written by the Docter, who was absent: Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen : It has been said that "he who makes two blades of grass grow where only one grew before, is a benefactor of his race." The statement is a truism; and it is no less true that he who makes two trees to grow... | |
| New Jersey. Board of Agriculture - 1885 - 834 pages
...effectively resist the demands of sharpers than when alone and unaided. " He is a public benefactor who makes two blades of grass grow where only one grew before," is a trite but true adage. All those who are laboring to this end are doing a good work. Every man who helps... | |
| Minneapolis (Minn.). Board of Park Commissioners - 1904 - 800 pages
...endeavor to merit not only the approval of our contemporaries but of future generations. It has been said that he who makes two blades of grass grow where only one grew before is a public benefactor; may not we, then, take satisfaction in the performance of our duties, which are... | |
| Mary Minerva Barrows - Cheerfulness - 1904 - 216 pages
...conservatories of connoisseurs, how surprised and gladdened he would be! If he is a public benefactor who makes two blades of grass grow where only one grew before, what shall be said of him who makes a million plants bloom where only one bloomed before? So we perform... | |
| Pennsylvania. Department of Agriculture - Agriculture - 1905 - 800 pages
...a good state of fertility, still they have not yet reached their greatest capacity for production. ''He who makes two blades of grass grow where only one grew before is universally looked upon as a benefactor to his kind, but that the claims of him who can make one grow... | |
| James Smith - Victoria - 1905 - 662 pages
...being indefinitely multiplied by its scientific culture ; and if the old adage holds true that the man who makes two blades of grass grow where only one grew before is a national benefactor, what a large share of gratitude is owing to those who teach our young husbandmen... | |
| Josiah Strong, William Howe Tolman, William Dwight Porter Bliss - Social history - 1905 - 370 pages
...still walks in some quarters, this discovery should lay it for at least some centuries to come. And if he who "makes two blades of grass grow where only one grew before" deserves the gratitude of his fellows, Professor Moore is entitled to be considered one of the great... | |
| H. T. Burgess - Pioneers - 1905 - 354 pages
...conditions of his success ensure its being more or less extensively shared. It has been said that the man who makes two blades of grass grow where only one grew before, confers a general benefit, and the same rule will apply to whoever produces sheep bearing a heavier... | |
| Rhode Island. Dept. of Agriculture and Conservation - Agriculture - 1906 - 1408 pages
...which he makes himself a business man of greater use and influence in the community wherein he resides. He who makes two blades of grass grow where only one grew before, is a public benefactor. The CHAIRMAN: Our next number on the program is the Report of the Meteorologist,... | |
| Western Gas Association - Gas manufacture and works - 1906 - 702 pages
...several of them probably lay claim to the title of philanthropist. A philanthropist is defined as one who makes two blades of grass grow where only one grew before, so the baldheaded gentleman over there can fairly lay claim to being a philanthropist, since he makes... | |
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