THE AMATEUR GARDEN 



ment of its people for gardening better than 

 another, nor to promote the production of indi- 

 vidual plants or flowers of extraordinary splen- 

 dor, nor even to incite children to raise patches 

 of flowers, is our design; but to make the modest 

 and democratic art of Where to Plant What 

 (an art, nevertheless, quite beyond the grasp of 

 children) so well known and so valued that 

 its practical adoption shall overrun the whole 

 town. 



To this end we have divided our field into 

 seven districts, in each of which the number of 

 gardens is about the same. In each of these 

 seven districts only three prizes (out of twenty- 

 one) may be taken in any one season. Conse- 

 quently three prizes must fall to each district 

 every year. Yet the best garden of all still car- 

 ries off the capital prize, the second-best may 

 win the second, and cannot take a lower than 

 the third, and the lowest awards go into the dis- 

 trict showing the poorest results. Even this 

 plan is so modified as further to stimulate those 

 who strive against odds of location or conditions, 

 for no district is allowed to receive two prizes 



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