THE AMATEUR GARDEN 



This first round consists merely in enrolling 

 the competitors by name, street, and number 

 and in sending these registrations in to the in- 

 stitute. Later, by the same ladies, the same 

 ground is more or less gone over again in visits 

 of observation, inquiry and counsel, and once 

 a month throughout the season the ladies meet 

 together with the president of the institute to 

 report the conditions and sentiments encoun- 

 tered and to plan further work. 



The importance of these calls is not confined 

 to the advancement of good gardening. They 

 promote fellowship among neighbors and kind 

 feeling between widely parted elements of so- 

 ciety. Last year this committee made nearly 

 eleven hundred such visits. 



Meanwhile a circular letter has been early 

 mailed to the previous year's competitors, urging 

 them to re-enroll by post-card. Last year hun- 

 dreds did so. Meanwhile, too, as soon as the 

 enrolment is completed, the institute's general 

 secretary begins a tour of official inspection, and 

 as he is an experienced teacher of his art, his in- 

 spections are expert. His errand is known by 



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