...persevering culture, continued through successive generations. The art of horticulture is no leveler. Its triumphs are achieved by rigid systems of selection...and raises from it another generation. From the new plants thus obtained he again chooses the best, and repeats with them the same process. Thus the rose...

...in diameter. He applied this experience to condemn democracy: The art of horticulture is no leveler. Its triumphs are achieved by rigid systems of selection...worth. The good. cultivator propagates no plants but for the best. He carefully chooses those marked out by conspicuous merit; protects them from the pollen...

...culture of roses he interpolated his caste-conscious values: "The art of horticulture is no leveler. Its triumphs are achieved by rigid systems of selection...founded always on the broad basis of intrinsic worth." His career as horticulturist was crowned by Harvard's appointing him in 1870 to a professorship of...