THE AMATEUR GARDEN 



them cleared of savages and deadly serpents, 

 without seeing part of the price paid for you 

 before your great-grandfather was born. So, 

 then, loving your town enough to scold it, you 

 will also serve it ! 



Now this we say not so much to be preaching 

 as to bring in a last word descriptive of our 

 Northampton movement. We do not make 

 that work a mere aggregation of private kind- 

 nesses, but a public business for the promotion 

 of the town in sanitary upkeep, beauty and civic 

 fellowship. 



And so our aim is not chiefly to reward the 

 highest art in gardening, but to procure its 

 widest and most general dissemination. The 

 individual is definitely subordinated to the com- 

 munity's undivided interest. Since gardening 

 tends to develop in fortunate sections and to die 

 out in others, we have laid off our town map in 

 seven parts and made a rule that to each of 

 these shall go three of the prizes. 



Moreover, no two consecutive prizes can be 

 awarded in any one of these districts. Where 

 a competitor takes the capital prize no other 



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