...Published by order qf the Lyceum. IT has been remarked by some one, that the man who has contrived to make two blades of grass grow where but one grew before, has rendered an important service to his country. A service no less im« portant is rendered by the man...

...before honor. Yet this consideration should not discourage those whose benevolent occupation it is, " to make two blades of grass grow where but one grew before." " By time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes satin." In view of these considerations, the committee...

...upon which it is feared the experience of the Surrey farmer has been both wide and of long duration. Setting aside the harbour for slugs, sparrows, rabbits,...last few years has been immense, and still proceeds. Perhaps it may be said that throughout the chalk range the fields are of good size ; and around Guildford,...

...I have only to say, save your ears for another occasion. If by a remark of mine, any man is induced to make two blades of grass grow where but one grew before, I shall have done some service and will be content. On the annual return of this day here and elsewhere,...

...should be the aim of every young farmer to do not only as well as his father, but to do his best ; " to make two blades of grass grow where but one grew before." " Agriculture," says an ingenious writer, " is an art — man the artist. The soil is his laboratory...

...implements of human advancement and happiness. Our anointed men are practical men — those who ' contrive to make two blades of grass grow where but one grew before.' They are the men who have been called, and who have come. What are they doing — what have they done...

...clothing and general comiort in greater abundance and with less labour, — which, in a word, leaches him to make " two blades of grass grow where but one grew before." He points out to the nations that the pursuit of certain branches of knowledge is a race in which,...

...should be the aim of every young fanner to do not only as well as his father, but to do his best ; " to make two blades of grass grow where but one grew before." " Agriculture," says an ingenious writer, " is an art — man the artist. The :soil is his laboratory;...

...let him, leaving his mere handicraft, undertake to interrogate Nature herself — let him endeavor to "make two blades of grass grow where but one grew before" — let him try to improve the quality or increase the productiveness of his fruits and vegetable»...

...let him, leaving his mere handicraft, undertake to interrogate Nature herself — let him endeavor to "make two blades of grass grow where but one grew before " — let him try to improve the quality or increase the productiveness of his fruits and vegetables...