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consecutive in the list. The second prize can- 

 not be bestowed in the same district in which 

 the first is being awarded, though the third can. 

 The third cannot go into the same district as 

 the second, though the fourth may. And so on 

 to the twenty -first. Moreover, a garden show- 

 ing much improvement over the previous season 

 may take a prize, as against a better garden 

 which shows no such improvement. Also no 

 garden can take the capital prize twice nor ever 

 take a prize not higher than it has taken before. 

 The twenty-one prizes are for those who hire no 

 help in their gardening; two others are for those 

 who reserve the liberty to employ help, and still 

 another two are exclusively for previous winners 

 of the capital prize, competing among them- 

 selves. In each of the five districts a committee 

 of ladies visits the competing gardens, inspecting, 

 advising, encouraging, sometimes learning more 

 than they teach, and reporting to headquarters, 

 the People's Institute. At these headquarters, 

 on two acres of ground in the heart of the city, 

 we have brought gradually into shape, on a plan 

 furnished by Frederick Law Olmsted's Sons, 



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