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...head. This month will round out his 50th year at Santa Rosa, where, aided by the Carnegie Foundation, the Burbank Society and a Federal land grant, he has directed the evolution of plant life so patiently and ingeniously as to produce, among other useful oddities, the spineless cactus, once a nuisance, now a fodder; fat, perennial rhubarb out of a skinny annual; plums with thick skins that endure the rigors of shipping and without pits, which eliminates an annoyance in eating; the flaming crimson poppy from a wan yellow bloom; the popular Shasta daisy...
...story drawn closer than ever through having had to examine their philosophies?Tristram's easy-going "all's-well-with-the-world," Brenda's aloof "live-and-let-live". In village and vicarage, where intolerant stupidity sprouts as prickly and impenetrable as a monkey-puzzle (cactus) tree, the blow-flies scavenge as of yore...
...amiable vagrant plays Nick-Carter-to-the-rescue of a nearly-swindled oil heiress in the cactus belt...
...Harkness Tower and the Quadrangle?" gasps a freshman fresh from Cactus Plant, Arizona. "That's something like a college!" The critic is assertive and confident in his judgment. He has often heard the Yard spoken of as a salad of monstrosities, and just as often has heard Harkness Tower praised as the finest college building in America...
Three types of greenery were considered, the elm, two poplars, or a cactus plant. The cactus plant was abandoned because in his wisdom Lampy decided it was too prickly and symbolical. The project of planting two poplars was rejected because poplars only last 30 years, and Lampy goes on forever. And so the elm was selected, long-living and symbol of eternal wisdom...