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all. In the four Garden Cities of last season we had about 1,000 

 young gardeners, each entrusted with a vote. 



The plan was first started for the purpose of solving a 

 problem. Many boys of the various nationalities in the District 

 made it a practice in the summer to frequent "Yankee Hill" and 

 help themselves to the fruit there so that many owners failed to 

 get the benefit of their crop. Without money and without any 

 other model or plan to follow, we started. "Dead Cat Dump" 

 was secured in the vicinity and operations commenced. The 

 children worked hard to clear it of the "sticker bushes" as they 

 called the burdock. Now although this was real work, it did not 

 seem so to the crowd of children. We made bon-fires of the 

 sticker bushes and this was a source of great amusement which 

 served to keep up the interest and enthusiasm. We are quite 

 convinced that work is a good thing for a boy. Play and play- 

 grounds are all right if they do not go to extremes. We teach the 

 boy that the business of life is work with play at intervals. Some 

 of our gardens have a playground along side, so that workgrounds 

 and playgrounds go together. 



After the forest of burdock was really cleared ofif and 

 burned, then came the herculean task of removing the tin cans, 



Hell-Hole Dump, 1911. 



