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Annual flowers add much interest to both the garden 

 work aaid to exhibits. OfEers may be made for the best bouquet 

 of each of five different popular flowers. Mixed bouquets 

 should not be encouraged. Collections of bouquets of not less 

 than one dozen flowers each are far better. Plants in blossom 

 may be transplanted and shown, and the list should encourage 

 such exhibits. 



Perennial flowers, including roses and any others which 

 may be found suitable to the season when the fair is held, 

 should be exhibited. Young people take great delight in flower 

 gardening, and many homes are greatly beautified by the plant- 

 ing of hardy perennial plants which blossom throughout the 

 season. Fair lists may include each of the kinds sepajately, 

 and where certain varieties are popular special offers may be 

 made for those. 



Window Flowers. — OfEers for the best collection of foliage 

 plants, such as ferns in wooden boxes or pots, should be in- 

 cluded in the list ; also plants in blossom ; bedding out plants 

 in pots or boxes, such as coleus, vinca and others. Plants in 

 this, group need not be potted uniformly, but may be in any 

 form of cans, boxes or pots used in homes or school windows. 

 They may, b© given a better appearance by having them 

 wrapped with a uniform color of crepe paper or other material. 



Home Beautifying. — A fair committee should offer to 

 take photographs freely for all who enter either at the begin- 

 ning of the season or in late summer, for competition in the 

 improvement of the home or school grounds. Photographs 

 can then be shown at the fair accompanied by the name of the 

 competitor in each case. When entries are made early in the 

 season, " before and after " effects should be . shown in the 

 pictures. A few of the points to be considered in the .compe- 

 tition are: (1) The greatest improvement in a home back 

 yard; (3) the same for a front yard; (3) the same for any 

 rural school grounds ; (4) best display of annual vines in tljie 

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