sentences:  His successor at the Michigan Agricultural College, P.G.Holden, is quoted as praising Beal’s work by saying “From his original experiment has come the Twentieth Century Miracle - hybrid corn.”
  
  Beal founded MSU's W. J. Beal Botanical Garden in 1877, making it the oldest continuously operated botanical garden in the United States.Beal's work was inspired by many influential scientists of the late 19th century.