PARK AND 
CEMETERY 
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THE LEAGUE ENCOURAGES HOME 
IMPROVEMENT. 
servation to the matter of exterior 
adornment of home, highway and 
park, and to comprehensive plans for 
city building must be employed if the 
community hopes to have a beautiful 
entity. 
Second. An effort to improve the 
.highways and to increase the park 
areas may well be made in every 
facturing town, and Billerica Center, which is a res- 
idence town. 
Public meetings were held in each of the villages, 
and addresses were made by men well informed as to 
the needs of town and city. An organization was 
formed. 
The Association will be incorporated, so as to ac- 
quire title to reservations. At present the membership 
fee is voluntary, but many think this will be changed 
so that there shall be two membership fees, a small 
one for children and a larger one for adults. 
The chief feature of the work at North Billerica 
that are worthy of imitation are : 
First. Securing the services of an expert. Spe- 
cialists who have devoted years of study and ob- 
SCHOOL GARDENS OF JUNIOR SCHOOL OF HORTICULTURE, ST. LOUIS. 
REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON LOCAL IMPROVE^ 
MENT, 
The following extracts are from one of the most in- 
teresting reports presented at the Buffalo convention of 
the American Park and Outdoor Art Association. It 
was read by Prof. W. J. Stevens, of St. Louis. 
Your committee is pleased to say that one of the 
chief difficulties it experiences in making this report 
is the abundance of material at hand from which to 
make selection. The forward strides that are being 
made in attempts to improve the sani- 
tation of rural, village and urban com- 
munities, and to beautify them, are so 
great and so numerous that it is im- 
possible to keep pace with the move- 
ment. 
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Your committee was fortunate in 
having a representative of a small 
city, a representative of a city of 
IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATIONS 
CONDUCTED BY 
MRS, FRANCES COPLEY SEAVEY, 
medium size, and a representative of a metropolis. 
They have deemed best to give the methods for local 
improvement adopted in these communities, pointing 
out what they regard as worthy of adoption in other 
communities similarly situated. 
Work in a Small City. 
North Billerica, Massachusetts, is a town of large 
area, with a population of about 3,000. There are 
really two villages, North Billerica, which is a manu- 
community. 
Third. The active interest taken by local corpora- 
tions, and enlisting the aid of the children are means 
of bringing about desirable ends. 
Work in a Medium Sized City . 
As a sample of local improvement methods in cities 
of medium size, we cannot do better than to refer 
to the work done at Harrisburg, Pa., where liberal 
sums of money were spent in securing the services of 
