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Title: The Canadian horticulturist
Identifier: canhorticulturist1903 (find matches)
Year: 1878 (1870s)
Authors: Fruit Growers' Association of Ontario
Subjects: Fruit Growers' Association of Ontario; Fruit-culture
Publisher: St. Catherines (Ont. ) : Fruit Growers' Association of Ontario
Contributing Library: Fisher - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST
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Fig 2553. An Attractive Park. evidences of refinement and of culture that were in proportion to her advancement in education. He would like to see the farms and the farm yards made more attractive, the school houses and their surroundings transformed from being the bleakest and most forbidding places to the most inviting and attractive. The park systems should be extended, and in every town and village no time should be lost in securing a site for a beautiful park. His Worship, Mayor Urquhart, of To- ronto, emphasized the great importance of a park system to every town or city, and was pleased to give the hearty welcome of the city of Toronto to this meeting. He wished the project every success, and only hoped that some scheme might be forthcoming by which plans adopted by a municipality for civic improvement might not be neglected by a succeeding body of municipal officers, but might be carried on with some continu- ity to their completion. Major Snelgrove said in the first instance his attention had been called to the impor- tance of this civic reformation in an address delivered by Mr. C. C. James, the able Deputy Minister of Agriculture for Ontario, before the Fruit Growers' Association at the Cobourg Convention, where he had sug- gested that our horticultural societies should become local improvement societies. The speaker said the objects which the promoters of the League had in view were to unite the efforts of all citizens in the systematic de- velopment of handsome and wholesome sur- roundings ; to raise the standard of muni- cipal taste and tidiness ; to make the Cana- dian life brighter, healthier and happier. In order to accomplish these aims, they would require organization, perseverance and com- mon sense. Radical reforms along the same lines were taking place in England, whose historic gardens were models of loveliness ; and yet it was an appalling fact, which ought to serve as a salutary warning to the

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