. The Canadian horticulturist. Fruit Growers' Association of Ontario; Fruit-culture. io6 THE CANADIAN Fig 2554. An Improved City Back Yard. Mr. R. Tasker Steele, President of the Civic Improvement Society at Hamilton, gave an interesting account of the work which had been accomplished at Hamilton in co-operation with the Hamilton Horticul- tural Society. The work had been inau- gurated in Hamilton about four years ago, and already much had been done toward beautifying the city. Not much money was needed to promote their objects, for the work was done principally by creating pu
. The Canadian horticulturist. Fruit Growers' Association of Ontario; Fruit-culture. io6 THE CANADIAN Fig 2554. An Improved City Back Yard. Mr. R. Tasker Steele, President of the Civic Improvement Society at Hamilton, gave an interesting account of the work which had been accomplished at Hamilton in co-operation with the Hamilton Horticul- tural Society. The work had been inau- gurated in Hamilton about four years ago, and already much had been done toward beautifying the city. Not much money was needed to promote their objects, for the work was done principally by creating pub- lic sentiment in favor of certain improve- ments, and thus stimulating the municipal authorities to undertake the work. Such work, whether inspired by a civic improve- ment society, a horticultural society, or a society club, makes better citizens, raises the moral tone of a town, and eventually results in enhancing the values of real estate. In Hamilton they had succeeded in having many improvements, such as alleyways bet- ter looked after, streets more systematically cleaned, vacant lots cleared up and made more sightly, waste paper barrels distributed and collected, wire baskets for waste set about in the parks, and generally they had stirred up a general interest in all measures conducive to both sanitation and civic beauty. He outlined many lines of work which might well be undertaken, such as the planting of shrubbery and vines along the vacant sides of factory buildings, the re- moval of the ugly bill boards from places where they obstructed attractive views, the improvement of our cemeteries, and the stimulating of the members of church and school boards to the decoration of their pre- mises, which are in many cases sadly ne- glected. He advised that no society under- take too many things at once, but rather to address themselves to one object at a time, and having accomplished that to undertake another. It was not, in Mr. Steele's opin- ion, at all necessary to have
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