Thus she trains and obeys the mind and hand of man, in this grand sphere of development.
Their co-working and its result are just as perceptible in a common Irish potato as in the most gorgeous dahlia ever exhibited.

Not one farmer in a thousand has ever read the history of that root of roots, in value to mankind; has ever conceived what a tasteless, contracted, water-soaked thing it was in its wild and original condition.

Let them read a few chapters of the early history of New England, and they will see what it was two hundred and fifty years ago, when the strong-hearted men and women, whom Hooker led to the banks of the Connecticut, sought for it in the white woods of winter, scraping away the snow with their frosted fingers.

The largest they found just equalled the Malaga grape in size and resembled it in complexion.

They called it the _ground-nut_, for it seemed akin to the nuts dropped by the oaks of different names.