. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 19'4- The American Florisi. 1015. A HOUSE OF CYCLAMEN AT POEHLMANN BROS. CO.'S GREENHOUSES. MORTON GROVE, ILL., NOV. 27, 1914. School Gardening; and Welfare Work. Paper by Benjamin Hammond, Beacon, X. Y., read before the Ontario Horticultural Associa- tion at Toronto. Canada. November 12. 1914. Thirty years ago I crossed Ontario for the first time from Toronto to Lake Saint Clair and took notes by the way. Within four weeks I have crossed On- tario, east and west, from Ottawa to beyond Port Artliur and Fort Willia
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 19'4- The American Florisi. 1015. A HOUSE OF CYCLAMEN AT POEHLMANN BROS. CO.'S GREENHOUSES. MORTON GROVE, ILL., NOV. 27, 1914. School Gardening; and Welfare Work. Paper by Benjamin Hammond, Beacon, X. Y., read before the Ontario Horticultural Associa- tion at Toronto. Canada. November 12. 1914. Thirty years ago I crossed Ontario for the first time from Toronto to Lake Saint Clair and took notes by the way. Within four weeks I have crossed On- tario, east and west, from Ottawa to beyond Port Artliur and Fort William on the northwest corner of the inland seas, and you have in Ontario, a prov- ince, an empire in extent, and my opin- ion is—that energy, perseverance and patience dominates the spirit of its in- habitants, which is the spirit that sub- dues the earth and prospers. Wherever I have been in frontier settlements, there I have found the little school house, and in the larger towns the more modern school houses; even at Haileybury, 100 miles or more north of North Bay, at the headwaters of the great Ottawa river overlooking the lake, standing out the second most prominent structure in the town, was the school house with flag flying and scores of children in attendance. In Cobalt, the town of rocks aj^d ravines, stands a school-house with about 400 children. It was my privilege to go through that school while in session, and I found the boys were writing plainly; you could read every word of their copy. I spoke a few words to them, and beating in the hearts of those young lads was the impulse of appreciative response to the mighty truth when I quoted Captain Smith, of the ill fated Titanic—"Women and Children ; The training of the child determines the character of the nation, and in school much is done aside from the routine work, to bring about the ideals which make the home life of a people substantially happy. With 27 years of direct touch in the administratio
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