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in the work, he was given additional credit for such help and 

 instruction. Six workers were given first rank, nine second 

 rank, and twelve third rank. The prizes were plants so- 

 licited by Miss Alden or grown at the school garden. There 

 were cabbage, cauliflower, kohlrabi, tomato and pepper 

 seedlings, and rhubarb roots. There were Marshall straw- 

 berry plants grown at school in pots sunk in the soil beneath 

 runners of the preceding year. There were divisions and 

 young plants of many sorts of hardy perennials bleeding- 

 heart, columbine, larkspur, and globe flower which would 

 soon be in bloom; phlox, helenium, boltonia, heliopsis, and 

 other summer and autumn flowering hardy plants. Then there 

 were some flats of annual seedlings salvia, asters, and 

 Drummond Phlox, given by a florist, and a good assortment of 

 dahlias from amateurs on other streets, who were glad to assist 

 in the improvements on River Street. They counted it a good 

 insurance investment, for owners of gardens do not invade 

 gardens elsewhere, which was once the habit of those dwelling 

 on River Street. 



An automobile trip to famous market gardens and fine 

 estates in a town ten miles distant was planned as a prize 

 for those who earned first rank. The inhabitants of River 

 Street often dodged automobiles up-town, and dreamed of a 

 time when they might own or at least ride in one. But every 

 first-rank gardener seemed disappointed at this award, and 

 begged for plants instead. Pressed for a reason, they said 

 that while the ride would be delightful it would soon be but a 

 memory, while the plants would grow on and the hardy 

 flowers would increase as years went by. They had the 

 gardener's true spirit: they received their plants, and also 

 the promise of the ride and plants as well if they should 



