WHERE TO PLANT WHAT 



winding through. Its architecture is in three or 

 four instances admirable though not extraor- 

 dinary, and, as in almost every town in our vast 

 America, there are hardly five householders in 

 it who are really skilled flower-gardeners, either 

 professional or amateur. 



As the present century was coming in, how- 

 ever, the opportunity, through private flower- 

 gardening, to double or quadruple the town's 

 beauty and to do it without great trouble or 

 expense, yet with great individual delight and 

 social pleasure, came to the lively notice of a 

 number of us. It is, then, for the promotion of 

 this object throughout all our bounds, and not 

 for the perfection of the art for its own sake, 

 that we maintain this competition and award 

 these "Carnegie" prizes. Hence certain fea- 

 tures of our method the value and necessity of 

 which might not be clear to the casual inquirer 

 without this explanation. 



May I repeat it ? Not to reward two or three 

 persons yearly for reaching some dizzy peak 

 of art unattainable by ordinary taste and skill, 

 nor to reward one part of the town or one ele- 



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