Success
At the east end of the great Brooklyn Bridge, in New
York City, an old man conducts a cobbler shop. When the engineers began
driving stakes and marking the foundation place for that great steel
structure this man shook his head and said "It can't be done!"
Now he looks out from his dingy little shoe-repair shop, shakes his head and asks himself: "How did they do it?"
He saw the bridge grow before his very eyes and still he lacks the imagination to analyze that which he saw. The engineer who planned the bridge saw it a reality long before a single shovel of dirt had been removed for the foundation stones. The bridge became a reality in his imagination because he had trained that imagination to weave new combinations out of old ideas.
Through recent experiments in the department of electricity one of our great educational institutions of America has discovered how to put flowers to sleep and wake them up again, with electric "sunlight."
This discovery makes possible the growth of vegetables
and flowers without the aid of sunshine. In a few more years the city
dweller will be raising a crop of vegetables on his back porch, with the aid
of a few boxes of dirt and a few electric lights, with some new vegetable
maturing every month of the year.
This new discovery, plus a little imagination, plus Luther Burbank's discoveries in the field of horticulture, and lo! the city dweller will not only grow vegetables all the year around, within the confines of his back porch, but he will grow bigger vegetables than any which the modern gardener grows in the open sunlight.