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increase the value of property. Anything you 

 make more beautiful you make more valuable. 

 People will like to come to the streets. Re- 

 finement and beauty do not exist only in im- 

 mense buildings, for the humblest of homes can 

 be made a bower of roses, and there is just as 

 much refinement and culture as there is in a 

 large home. Ruskin says that the character of 

 a people is displayed in their architecture. That 

 is not true in this country, where people have 

 to take things as they find them. 



Another thing that seems awful to me is the 

 condition of the church houses and the church- 

 yards. This is the fault of the -clergymen. 

 There ought to be more life in their sermons. A 

 " Nature Sermon " from a clergyman who does 

 not know anything about it falls flat. The 

 church grounds should be models of neatness 

 and taste. 



The promenades is another thing that should 

 receive attention. Attractive promenades will 

 induce people to go out walking. The tongues 

 get a great deal of exercise in this age, but the 

 legs do not get so much. There should be more 

 walking, more exercise. 



Next as to the driveways. There is no excuse 

 in this country why any man should not swim 

 and shoot and ride and be pretty good at any 

 kind of sport, and the driveways and promen- 

 ades would encourage more of that sort of thing. 

 I am a great believer in keeping up the drive- 

 ways. 



Another thing is the roads leading into the 

 towns. Good roads are a great assistance in 

 building up a town. I have known many towns 

 to be stunted because the roads are not in good 

 condition. Trade moves to the best centers of 

 transportation. 



The horticultural societies should ■ encourage 

 individual gardening by displays, premiums, and 

 by teaching people of the work and how to do it. 

 If there is any religion in a man at all, when he 



comes into the garden his nature becomes up- 

 lifted. He remembers that the Lord walked in 

 the garden. The Lord walked in the garden o° 

 Eden. The Lord of Life walked in the garden 

 of Gethsemane, and in the garden was a grave. 

 Every man's life is a garden and in every man's 

 life is a grave. Man is the finest flower of 

 God's creation; therefore, in your garden let 

 there be order and beauty, and a constant striv- 

 ing after better results. 



A very good idea is to go to the public gar- 

 dens of our towns and rub shoulders with the 

 gardeners, the people in charge, and find out 

 from the practical men how they are doing 

 things. It is simply wonderful the information 

 you can get, and in many cases you can apply it 

 to practical use when you get home* 



The horticultural society has a general ten- 

 dency to uplift the town. Canada is on the eve 

 of a wonderful burst of opportunity. Now is 

 the time for us to take the opportunity. People 

 should spend money in uplifting the town, and 

 the money spent on civic improvement is not 

 wasted. 



To come to our little town, Cayuga. We had 

 one of the dirtiest and most miserable of towns. 

 We started our Horticultural Society. Of 

 course Mr. Beal is responsible for the whole 

 thing. He started the machinery and pressed 

 the button, and we have kept it going. We 

 have cleaned up the two schools, planted 

 hedges, and done wonderful things there. We 

 have spent probably $500 on these grounds since 

 we started them. We have spent $10,000 on ce- 

 ment sidewalks. We have new public gardens, 

 and now each neighbor vies with the other as to 

 who would have the best boulevard. The first 

 thing we knew we had landed a factory, a 

 leather goods factory, employing forty hands, 

 which we never would have done if we had not 

 started improving our town. And we owe it all 

 to the Horticultural Society. 



PEANUT Candy as Food. — Professor 

 Hilgard, of the University of California, re- 

 commends peanut candy as a healthful sub- 

 stitute for a meal when it is necessary to 

 omit one, says Country Life in America. 

 The starch of the peanut, and the sugar in 

 the candy, are both blood and tissue build- 

 ers and are exceedingly nourishing and at 

 the same time harmless when obtained at a 

 reputable candy store. 



Thu Ice Crop. — Have the ice pond 



cleared out and made tight before letting in 

 the water to be frozen, and see that all 

 sources of pollution of the water are cut off. 

 Freezing does not purify water, and if im- 

 pure the ice will not be fit for use. Impure 

 ice is more dangerous than impure water, as 

 the impurity of it is so much more likely to 

 be overlooked in the hot weather. Clean 

 out the ice house, and if necessary thorough- 

 ly repair and drain it. If no ice houses ex- 

 ist now is th'e time to build one if it is ^.o be 

 used this winter. 



