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can grow well we oug-ht to plant extensively, 

 and thus be correct economically, anyhow. 

 Next year there will, if things go right, be a 

 big crop. All that we could export this 

 year would not load a small ship. 



The pear show was not too bad for the 

 year, Clapp's Favorite made a splendid 

 section. We can grow this pear i;raiiuly 

 and ought to do so extensively, E. Bay- 

 field showed some splendid specimens and 

 carried off the red easily. The portrait of 



the young tree in full bearing, from whi:h 

 the prize pears were taken, is given here- 

 with. It will be seen from it that we can 

 get a crop of pears in an off year at least. 



In the barreled fruit Senator Ferguson 

 and John Robertson, Inkerman carried off 

 the honors. In the collections there was 

 some superior merit in infinite variety. The 

 Silken Banner Sweepstake remains with 

 Yours truly, 



A, E, Burke, 



SCHOOL YARD IMPROVEMENTS. 



FLAG RAISING CEREMONY, 



MR, G, R, PATTULLO, the honorary 

 field secretary of the Canadian 

 League, has sent out a circular in which he 

 aims to promote a greater interest in the 

 school properties. The following is an ex- 

 tract from it : 



The chief objects of the League, in brief, 

 are : To promote a higher civic spirit and 

 a wider interest in the improvement and 

 beautifying of our cities, towns, villages and 

 rural districts. 



The directions in which these objects may 

 be promoted are many and varied, but I 

 shall in this letter mention only one, name- 

 ly : The improvement and beautifying of 

 rural school properties, including the school- 

 houses, outbuildings, and surrounding 

 grounds. These at present are, for the 

 most part, unattractive, bare, and in many 

 cases, offensive in appearance. 



With the hope of improving them, the 

 Canadian League of Civic Improvement is 

 endeavoring to stimulate a more general in- 

 terest in their school properties on the part 



of the Boards of Trustees and the people of 

 the several school sections. 



To aid in doing this, it has been suggest- 

 ed that if the parliamentary representative 

 of each constituency were to offer as a prize 

 a Canadian flag (British) to the rural 

 school section that makes the greatest im- 

 provements upon its school property during 

 the year 1903, there might be developed a 

 keen but friendly rivalry between the dif- 

 ferent sections, and thereby great improve- 

 ments effected, such as planting Boston ivy 

 or other vines about the school buildings, 

 the planting of trees about the grounds, and 

 the making of one or two flower beds. 



Apart from this, another good object 

 could be accomplished, namely: The fur- 

 nishing of school sections with the national 

 flag, which each one of them should have 

 and should fly on all appropriate occasions. 

 The trustees would, of course, supply the 

 flag poles and equipment, and the formal 

 ceremony of flag raising might be an inter- 

 esting and patriotic event. 



