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Another series was given for the best individual flower gardens. The 

 city was divided into sections according to the conditions under which 

 the children worked, the aim being to have those children compete 

 with each other who had about the same opportunities as regards 

 location and size of garden. 



Another organization which is doing similar work to the one in 

 Cleveland is the School Garden Association of Boston (address 

 Station A). This Association makes up a number of collections of 

 flower and vegetable seeds, each collection containing five packets of 

 different kinds of seeds and selling for five cents. 



III. HOME GARDENS IN CLEVELAND 



BY LUCY C. BUELL 



Secretary, Home Gardening Association 



The sixth year of work by the Cleveland Home Gardening Associa- 

 tion, which is described in the report just published, is the most 

 successful the Association has known. The report of 1900, when 

 the work started, shows that forty-eight thousand packets of seeds 

 were sold to the school children of Cleveland. Last year two hundred 

 and forty-seven thousand three hundred and forty-eight packets were 

 sold. Besides this amount of seed used in Cleveland, one hundred 

 and ninety thousand eight hundred and forty packets were sold to 

 outside organizations doing a work similar to that of the Home 

 Gardening Association. This increasing volume of orders has been 

 hard to handle, but with the better facilities which enlarged quarters 

 give it is believed it can be easily handled. The exchange garden, 

 which was opened in 1905, grew into two such gardens last year, 

 while vacant lots cultivated rose from eight to eighteen. Other new 

 features are projected for the coming season which will, it is believed, 

 add much to the usefulness of the Association. 



The report for 1906, may be had about I^'ebruary loth. Address 

 501 St. Clair Avenue, Cleveland. Price 25 cents. 



