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exact pues of ee Home gardens thus started, but a con- 
be fro Ss 
two schools report twenty-seven hundred gardens over two 
hundred square feet. is is entirely apart from the School 
gardens, where, of course, an inte Higent interest in ie growing 
things i is awakening under e schook 
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en there are th of one hundred 
acres in South Orange, sculdvated a a the Prudential 
Insurance Company in the Company’s time. The Company 
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for the wor e crop will be sold at cost to the culavatars: 
The Weston Electrical Instrument Company plowed fifteen 
acres and allotted them to its workmen; the Feigenspan Brewery 
has also put land at the disposal of its employees. 
The newest Pee Tout of this growing ovement is shows 
in New York Cit York B 
whose auspices we are met at this time). I speak of the educa- 
tional garden at Union Square and the School of Gardening 
newly established at the New York Botanical Garden and 
resided over by Mr. H. G. Parsons. 
n Newark we proceed in this manner. We have an office in 
a business building in the center of the city. We have a strong 
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or those who wish to donate the use of land and for those who 
wish to take up lots. 
The lots are ce seer and Classe fougaly i Hood, fair 
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and bad. E 
As si I le it is cl d for plowing: We had six to eke 
teams ete for two months. The Association provides seed 
and Herat where nectssaty: We encourage the applicant to 
ay for t lot. Also we instruct ance. 
When ae supa tried to fdiccouraee our efforts this year, we 
