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Show A KIG SERMON Luther Burbank, plant wizard, was 73 years old a few weeks ago, and he took occasion to preach a splendid little sermon ser-mon that every reader of The Chronicle will do well to remember. remem-ber. "I am convinced", said the creator of new plants and trees, "that the same treatment and care necessary to the highest development de-velopment of plant life is also essential to the highest development develop-ment of human life. 1 am speaking of the boy or girl who is reared in the only place that is truly fit to bring up a child or a plant the country, the small town for the nearer to nature they are brought up the better it will be for them and the great - world of which they are to become a part. In the successful cultivation cul-tivation of plants there must be absolute honesty. You cannot deceive nature or thwart her without the consequences falling back on your own head. So be honest with your child." |
