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THE CANADIAN HORT1CULTURIS2, 



purpose than that suggested by the encour- 

 agement of the organization of improve- 

 ment associations within the Hmits of the 

 city. This is as legitimate a purpose as any 

 scheme for pubhc welfare can be. It 's 

 therefore suggested that members of this 

 organization ought 



(i) To become familiar with the plans 

 for home and neighborhood beautifying of 

 other cities through a committee on im- 

 provements. 



(2) To encourage the organization of 

 improvement societies in the city, having 

 one for each neighborhood if the city be 

 large enough. It is necessary that some 

 one take the initiative and give the move- 

 ment the benefit of well organized begin- 

 nings. It is important, too, that there be a 

 body easily reached, to which definite infor- 

 mation may go till the improvement society 

 has found its place. What more natural 

 than that representative organizations of the 

 city's interests should foster a definite move- 

 ment of this kind? 



(3) To assist by influence, counsel and 

 funds in practical organization of improve- 

 ment societies among property holders. A 

 society of this kind will do better if given 

 sufficient means from the beginning to fol- 

 low up its work of encouragement, prizes 

 for good work, examination into conditions, 

 dissemination of information, and the score 

 or more of directions into which it may ex- 

 tend its efforts. 



(4) To bring proper pressure to bear 

 upon factory owners to assist in the beauti- 

 fying of their neighborhoods, thus empha- 

 sizing the attractiveness to the sturdy labor- 

 ing classes of the city itself. It may be 

 difficult to attain this directly, either by law 

 or by effort of commercial organizations, 

 but neighborhood organizations — which in- 

 terest employer and employe — will often 

 attain it. There is no longer any reason 

 for the existence in most cities of the ugly, 

 unsightly and disgraceful appearance of 



Fig. 2636. Waste Paper 

 ■* Receptacle, 



n-i a n y factories 

 and their neigh- 

 borhoods. Unite 

 the people of he 

 neighborhood for 

 a common pur- 

 pose, interest the 

 factory owner at 

 least to the ex- 

 tent of cleaning 

 and beautifying 

 his own premises, 

 and the results 

 are soon attained. 

 5. Encour age 

 the union of local 

 societies w i t h 

 other societies 

 through the 

 league, for mu- 

 tual information 

 and assistance. 

 Nothing will 

 bring better re- 

 turn than this 

 work and contri- 

 for club 



Devised be one of the Members of the KutioUS 



Springfield, Ohio, League. 

 The advantages are a cover with funds for thc 



spring hinge, and the ease with 



which the can can be lifted from purpOSC. The dif- 



the pole and replaced. 1 he back ^ ^ 



of the can is shorter than the front ficulty iu thc paSt 



which makes it fall over 11 not ^ '■ 



hung in place. ^^5 been the iso- 



lation of the organizations and the waste 

 of energy through lack of knowledge 

 of what others attempted. It is the 

 aim of the National League, with the en- 

 couragement of commercial organizations 

 and local societies, to unite their efforts and 

 to disseminate information. 



With such a union of effort of all local 

 bodies organized for the city's good, there 

 must come some excellent results — and the 

 city's good name greatly magnified. Nu- 

 merous are the illustrations of its excellent 

 advantages, proving that the reasons here 

 given are not theory but practice. 



In this present age great interest is mani- 



