28 LANDSCAPE GARDEN SERIES 



We wish you might have seen a little widow, the mother of five 

 children, who without any help other than her little family, spaded up 

 a plot of ground one hundred and fifty feet square, and won a well- 

 merited prize for a vegetable garden. 



The enthusiasm was so widespread that we succeeded in interesting 

 even the residents of certain of the shanty boats on the Mississippi. 

 Two of them were awarded prizes, one for a vegetable garden and 

 the other for yard improvement, the latter's yard being a portion of 

 the right-of-way of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway 

 Company. 



A modest little woman, upon whose property the city ordered the 

 weeds cut just one year ago, was awarded first prize in 1915 for yards. 

 Fhe second prize went to a little slip of a German woman. Her yard 

 was a model. It was a garden of old-fashioned flowers with scarcely 

 a blade of grass out of place. 



COST OF THE CONTEST. 



The cost of our contest this year was eleven hundred and seventy- 

 ei.ght dollars and seventy-eight cents, distributed as follows: 



Eighty-three prizes $ 400.00 



Pictures and slides: 



Pictures of each entry before improve- 

 ment, at 25 cents each. 

 Slides of prize winners before improve- 

 ment, at 25 cents each 451.00 



Slides of prize winners after improve-, 

 ment, in colors, at 50 cents each. 



Clerical Help 25.00 



Printing entry cards, etc 50.97 



Expense of judge for approximately three 



weeks; no charge for his time 1 13.01 



Certificates for awards 77.00 



Programs for awards 15.00 



Stationery 9.25 



Postage and multigraph work 1 7.44 



Incidental expense 20. 1 1 



Total $1 ,1 78.78 



DIVISION OF PRIZES. 



The four hundred dollars in cash prizes was divided into eighty- 

 three cash prizes, as follows: A first prize of twenty-five dollars, a 

 second prize of fifteen dollars, six prizes of ten dollars each, twelve 

 prizes of seven dollars and a half each, twelve prizes of five dollars 



