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In an effort to secure the co-opera- 
tion of the citizens of Minneapolis with 
the board of park commissioners Com- 
missioner Milton O. Nelson has com- 
menced a campaign for having front 
and back yards cleaned up. He has 
gone at the undertaking in regular po- 
litical style, holding ward and precinct 
meetings and endeavoring to induce his 
listeners to get out and clean up their 
unsightly door-yards. Illustrated views 
are used with his lectures to show what 
can be accomplished with a little pains, 
ingenuity and a small outlay of labor 
and capital. 
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The Arcadia Civic League, of Ar- 
cadia, La., recently gave the town such 
a scrubbing and cleaning as it never 
had before in all its history, says the 
iMunicipal Journal and Engineer. The 
town was divided into eight districts, 
and a committee appointed to super- 
vise the work in each district. The 
work started early in the morning and 
continued until early in the afternoon, 
when a heavy rain came, putting a 
stop to all outside work. Through the 
co-operation of the town authorities 
and the citizens .generally excellent 
work was done and will be continued 
until not a leaf, piece of paper or tin 
can can be found in tbe residence or 
business section of the town. 
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In order to facilitate the planting of 
as many trees Arbor Day in the vicinity 
of Pawtuxet, R. L, as possible, arrange- 
ments have been made with Superin- 
tendent Fitts of Roger Williams Park 
at Providence, through the League of 
Improvement Societies, whereby young 
and tender trees suitable for planting 
may be obtained at wholesale prices. 
This arrangement renders it possible to 
have trees planted at an outside cost of 
about $2 each, including the tree itself, 
the cost of the labor of planting, tbe 
loam necessary and a tree guard. 
Where owners prefer to do their own 
planting trees can be secured at less 
than 75 cents apiece. Efforts are in 
progress to arouse a greater interest in 
tree-planting on the part of Pawtuxet 
citizens, and at the last meeting of the 
Pawtuxet Old Home and Improvement 
Association a special committee on tree- 
planting was appointed. 
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William E. Wellington, of Arling- 
ton, Mass., has donated $8oo for the 
improvement of the unsighty junction 
of two streets in that town according 
to the plan shown herewith. This junc- 
tion is known as the “Foot of the 
Rocks,” and it was here that the barge 
lines had their terminal in the days 
before the electric cars climbed the re- 
mainder of the hill to Arlington 
PRIZE WINNING MUMS AND THE 
GROWER, LADIES' CEMETERY SOCI- 
ETY. CLARKSVILLE, TEX. 
Heights. The work will begin at once. 
A cannon will be set at the front fac- 
ing Arlington center and in the center 
of the plot will be a pile of rocks, back 
of which will be a walk leading to a 
drinking fountain for man and beast, set 
in the rock heap. Seats will be ar- 
ranged along the park and the entire 
plot curbed in. Additional trees will 
be planted and back of the cannon will 
be set a flag pole. 
The Fairview Cemetery Society, of 
Clarksville, Tex., conducts a flower show 
each year as one of the methods of 
raising funds to care for the cemetery, 
and our picture shows the prize winning 
chrysanthemum and the grower. 
The exhibition has been an incentive 
for the nearby country people, as well 
as those in town, to take more interest 
in flowers and quite a marked improve- 
ment has been noted in the quality and 
quantity of chrysanthemums and a 
much finer display is expected this year. 
The woman who grew this prize win- 
ner is the wife of a farmer; does all 
her household work, has a family of 
seven, raises poultry and has time to 
attend to her flowers. The tall one 
behind her is a yellow one and grew 
over seven feet high ; the one in front 
is red and took the prize for the best 
pot grown plant. 
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The California State Floral Society 
is taking a lively and enthusiastic in- 
terest in the selection and transplanting 
of wild flowers to parks and public 
grounds. California possesses a profu- 
sion of wild flowers which, for bril- 
liancy of colors and fragrance cannot 
be surpassed on the continent. There 
are many parks, cemeteries and public 
grounds in the state which contain few 
California wild flowers. 
The society, whose members are 
nearly all women, will make a state- 
wide effort to have the choicest varie- 
t'.es of wild plants, shrubs and flowers 
collected, and transplanted in the 
parks, gardens and cemeteries. The 
purpose of the floral society is meeting 
with much public commendation and 
encouragement. The flowers and plants 
had much better be used in the beauti- 
fying and adornment of public and 
private ground and the many “Silent 
Cities,” than in “wasting their sweet- 
ness on the desert air.” 
PLAN FOR IMPROVING UNSIGHTLY CORNER, ARLINGTON, MASS. 
