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awarded, and no two consecutive prizes in the list can be 

 awarded in the same district. 



10. Capital Prize Winner's Price, $6; capital, $15; 

 second, $13; third, $10; fourth, $9.50; fifth, $9; sixth, $8.50; 

 seventh, $8; eighth, $7.50; ninth,$7; tenth, $6.50; eleventh, 

 $6; twelfth, $5.50; thirteenth, $5; fourteenth, $4.50; fif- 

 teenth, $4; sixteenth, $3.75; seventeenth, $3.50; eighteenth, 

 $3.25; nineteenth, $3; twentieth, $2.75; twenty-first, $2.50. 



11. A separate prize of $6, and a second one of $4 

 may be competed for by persons using hired help in their 

 gardens, subject to these rules, except rule three. 



12. Any number of not less than seven gardens op- 

 posite one another on the same street, or adjoining one 

 another whether on the same street or not, may form a 

 neighborhood garden club to compete for a first club prize 

 of $1 per garden, and a second club prize of 50 cents per 

 garden, payable to the regularly elected secretary of the 

 club. 



13. Gardens belonging to such clubs shall have every 

 right of individual contestants in the general competition, 

 the same as if they did not belong to clubs. 



14. An empty lot or an empty dwelling, or the oc- 

 cupied dwelling of no more than one family, refusing to 

 join the neighborhood garden club, shall not be counted 

 separating any group of neighbors seeking to form a club 

 under this rule. 



15. The annual award of prizes shall be on some date 

 in October, to be announced by the management of the 

 People's Institute. Seventy-five additional prizes of 

 shrubs are given by a nursery man. 



All homes that the committee fail to visit to enroll, 

 are visited by some one from the People's Institute. The 

 marking is done by an expert, who visits every competing 

 garden and marks it on the points mentioned in rule eight. 

 These are marked on a scale of 100. When visiting, he 

 gives advise as to planning, planting and improving the 

 grounds. 



