Anyone who acquires more than the usual amount of knowledge concerning a subject is bound to leave it as his contribution to the knowledge of the world.

Tools of many kinds and well chosen, are one of the joys of a garden.

The department of home economics was organized to train a woman in efficiency and to develop her outlook to life. Such a department is a necessity as a means of developing a society. It stands for the evolution of women's work and place.

One does not begin to make a garden until he wants a garden. To want a garden is to be interested in plants, in the winds and rains, in birds and insects, in the warm-smelling earth.

Is there any progress in horticulture? If not, it is dead, uninspiring. We cannot live in the past good as it is; we must draw our inspiration from the future.

The happiest life has the greatest number of points of contact with the world, and it has the deepest feeling and sympathy with everything that is.

The man who worries morning and night about the dandelions in the lawn will find great relief in loving the dandelions.