Henry A. Adrian

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Henry Augustus
Adrian
IN HIS UNIQUE
and STRIKING
LECTURES ON
LUTHER BURBANK
and the
New Creations
of Plant Life
and on
His Own Great Work in
THE TRANSFORMING OF HUMAN PLANTS
We may transform plants almost at will.

—Luther Burkank

There is no boy so bad that proper training cannot make of him a useful citizen.

—H. A. Adrian

As surely as a wayside weed was moulded into the beauty of the Shasta Daisy, so surely may the weak and the wayward among children be made into useful citizens.

Management MIDLAND CHAUTAUQUA CIRCUIT, Des Moines, Iowa




DO YOU KNOW
IT HAS ALWAYS BEEN the invariable custom of The Midland to secure for its talent none but those of wide reputation and assured standing?

Only once has it departed from this practice.  In booking Professor H. A. Adrian, an entirely unknown man was taken on, without even a hearing, and thereby a genuine Find was scored.

In two years he has won for himself a place among the foremost in power and popularity.

It is comparatively easy to make good, with a great reputation back of you, but to succeed on merit alone and build a reputation as you go, is the supreme test of success on the platform.  This he has certainly done, and the demand for his time has increased in a remarkable way.

There is no possibility of getting BURBANK on your program, but you can secure the man who in two seasons has made the BURBANK LECTURES among the most popular on the circuit, and has scored an almost equal triumph with his series on THE BOY OF TODAY AND TOMORROW.

Mr. Adrian is an intimate friend of Luther Burbank and knows his work thoroughly—and he is a rarely gifted speaker.  His vivid descriptions are made more intense and real by the use of many RARE SPECIMENS OF NEW CREATIONS OF PLANT LIFE, direct from the Burbank Gardens.

Soon we shall raise rubber as we now raise sorghum.

Through all the World's long, long history new forms of plant life were produced only by the slow processes of nature—Burbank has shown the way to add almost without limit to the kinds of useful plants we now possess.

DO YOU WANT TO KNOW HOW?

In Science and Art and Invention we are in the Twentieth Century, but in Education and Agriculture we are still in the Middle ages.

How many tons of fodder can you raise on an acre?  The SPINELESS CACTUS is producing four hundred tons on good irrigated lands, and from fifteen to thirty tons on the unirrigated deserts of the West.

Have you seen that wonderful new wheat, that is to grow almost anywhere on ordinary lands?

Did you ever see the everlasting flower?


SPINELESS CACTUS
A Hundred Tons of Rich, Luscious Fruit per Acre



WE MUST TEACH our crops to mature with less water, then conserve the soil moisture, so that shortage of rainfall will work but little injury.  How?  These lectures make it clear.  To increase the quantity and improve the quality of human FOOD is the biggest problem the Race has ever had to face; and next in importance is the right raising of the CHILDREN.

These two lectures of Professor Adrian's present in an absorbing way the best that man has thought and done for their solution.

The SPECIMENS alone would make even a commonplace lecture well worth the while.


PITLESS PLUMS—Solid Meat All the Way Through


Thornless Blackberry vines.  Thorns were once necessary for protection, now they are no longer needed and must go from the Rose and Raspberry.  COME AND SEE Blackberry vines as smooth as a willow.

In the future we shall raise lumber trees as a regular farm crop,—big trees grown in fifteen years.  Do you want to see SAMPLES OF THIS NEW WOOD?

And the time will shortly come when the peach will have no stone, the strawberry no seed, and the apple no core.

EVERY SEED you plant should grow.—Does yours?  Why not?

THE ROMANCE OF CORN is as appealing as any tale of fiction you ever read.

Two hundred kinds of apples on a single tree, and a hundred thousand different kinds of plums in one little orchard—are some of the things in BURBANK'S WONDERFUL GARDENS.

Will the fruit trees of the future all be little bushes, in bearing from the very first year?

Nine-tenths of all the plants of the world are either noxious or useless.  The problem of tomorrow is to transform a part of them and destroy the remainder.  The Conquest of Environment tells the story.

There are more than four hundred thousand idlers in our land today,—tramps, paupers and criminals; the task of tomorrow is not to reform them, but to prevent their making.  How?  Training of the Human Plant gives the solution.

Professor Adrian's work with children has, in its way, been almost as remarkable as that of Burbank with plants; and of each he tells an absorbing story, with all the power of a master of thought and expression.


A Four-year-old Chestnut Tree and a Nine-months-old Bush in Full Bearing


These lectures are not for any one class of people alone but for ALL CLASSES and ALL AGES.  THEY ARE ROMANCES OF THE RACE.



LECTURE TITLES
About The Plant World:

With Burkank in Wonderland.
The Transformation of Flower and Fruit.
The Conquest of Environment.


About The Child World:

The Passing of The Hickory.
Wild Animals I Have Known.
The Making of Men.





WHAT SOME OF THEM SAY
A wonderful story, wonderfully well told.—Senator Jonathan P. Dolliver.

One of the few great lectures upon the American platform.—Dr. J. M. Myers, Kansas City.

A remarkable lecture—the best of our entire program.  We must certainly have him again.—W. L. McAllister, Neligh (Neb.) Chautauqua.

He tells his story with all the actor's skill and the orator's power.—George Fields, Washington, D. C., Press Correspondent.

One of the strongest men we have ever had upon the platform in ldaho.—S. B. Chamberlain, State Superintendent Public Instruction.

I have heard but few public speakers, in a wide experience, more effective before an audience of any character.—A. B. Thorpe, Institute Lecturer for Wisconsin.

He has a striking personality, an unfailing fund of humor, and a wonderful store of anecdote to illustrate his thought.—Edward Hyatt, State Superintendent Public Instruction, Calitornia.

A man of splendid abilities—a thinker—an orator.  Few men have so great power to sway an audience at will.—Joaquin Miller, Poet of the Sierras.

One of the best things I have ever heard.  A great message to young and old alike.—Guy Potter Benton, President University of Vermont.

It is absolutely unique and one of the finest things on the platform.—Dr. James H. McLaren, Platform Manager, Allerton, Iowa.

'Training the Human Plant' is a great lecture by an unusually gifted speaker.—Dr. Dent Atkinson, Brookings (S. D.) Chautauqua.

Bryan, Kenyon and Adrian were the great features of our Chautauqua.—Albert Baxter, lowa Falls, Iowa.



A FEW PRESS PARAGRAPHS

A magnificent address.—
The Los Angeles Times.


A great lecture.—
Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Wash.


A more deservedly popular man has never been upon our platform; the variety of his subjects, his ready, illuminating wit and the wonderful way of fastening home his points are just simply a gift.—
Gate City News.


A masterful oration, the equal of which has rarely ever been heard in this city.—
The Morning Press, Santa Barbara, Cal.


An unusually strong and entertaining lecture.—
The Portland Oregonian.


Few speakers have such a wealth of interesting material, and fewer still possess his rare gift of portrayal.—
Pioneer Press.


Last night Prof.  H. A. Adrian, of California, delivered one of the strongest and most interesting lectures that has ever been given in this city.  The church was filled to its capacity with an audience which sat for nearly an hour and a half almost in a trance as the interesting recital simply gripped the entire attention of every member of the assembly during its able and dramatic delivery.—
Couer d'Alene Evening Press.


Henry Augustus Adrian's address on 'Luther Burbank,' Sunday evening, was just as good as the speaker's long name.  He had his great subject well in hand, and the things of which he told, and showed, and illustrated, were marvelous. It is a wonderful lecture, on a wonderful subject, by a wonderful man.—
Hawarden (Iowa) Chronicle.


At his second appearance he was called to the platform amid a storm of applause.  The house was packed from floor to ceiling, and no man ever had a more attentive and appreciative audience; and, truth to tell, no audience ever had a more interesting and instructive speaker.—
Pocatello (Idaho) Tribune.


Prof.  Henry A. Adrian was the speaker Tuesday afternoon, and there was not a man, woman or child disappointed in his talk on his favorite 'Luther Burbank, the Wonder Worker of the Plant World.'  He is a close friend of Mr. Burbank and illustrated his lecture with many specimens taken from the Burbank gardens at Santa Rosa, Cal.  While the thermometer was ballooning around the 100 mark, the audience paid little heed to the heat, but gave the closest attention to his religious philosophy and lavish predictions of future development in the plant world.—
Knoxville (Iowa) Journal.

The Los Angeles Times, the Portland Oregonian and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer each gave an editorial discussion of his lectures.