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community. Meantime, the committee can receive 

 applications from those desiring gardens, and assign 

 convenient plots as soon as arrangements can be made 

 with the owners. Thus it is possible, with compara- 

 tively little difficulty, to provide for the working of 

 every foot of available garden land in the community. 



In the gardening itself there should likewise be cooper- 

 ation. In every town may be found retired farmers or 

 experienced truck growers or a county agricultural 

 agent; and arrangements should be made with some such 

 trained worker to give advice and instruction as to 

 selecting the crops best suited to the soil and as to the 

 details of planting and cultivation. Where such indi- 

 vidual is not available, sometimes it is desirable to 

 raise a fund that may be used to hire a garden expert 

 to supervise' the work. Where possible, the cost of 

 supervision should be borne from a general fund raised 

 by the organization in charge. If this is not practicable, 

 the individual gardeners should pay it in proportion to 

 the size of their plots. The supervision should extend 

 over the entire gardening season. 



A group of gardeners should be organized just as any 

 other association is organized, with its executive head 

 and its directing committees. Various problems are 

 bound to come up each season, and these can be 

 handled better through committees than if the indi- 

 viduals themselves or a few of them attempt to solve 

 them. The executive head should have general super- 

 vision of the work and for this reason should be, if 

 possible, some person who is familiar with gardening. 



