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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



March, 1911 



GILLETFS 

 Hardy Plants 



Rhododendrons for mass planting and for 



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clumps in small or large quantities. 



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Hardy Ferns for open sun, dry shade, 



moist shade or wet open ground. 

 Hardy Flowers for open border, dark 



shade, wild garden or rockery. 

 Azaleas and ornamental shrubs for lawns. 

 My illustrated catalog containing 75 

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DAHLIAS 



Exclusively. 4 Acres of 

 the new, superb varie- 

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 Decorative, Fancy, 



Paeony-fiowered, Pompton and Single Dahlias. The 



wonders of creation in flowers ! I was awarded 20 



First Prizes in 1910. Catalogues free. 



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M. H. Brunjes & Sons 

 Special Seed Offer 



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The Prize Winners in the 

 Children's Contest 



THE contest which The Garden Magazine 

 has conducted for the last two years is a 

 national contest. It is open to all boys and 

 girls. A review of the classes in the last con- 

 test should be an incentive for this year's garden 

 work. 



Individual and group prizes are given in this 

 contest. A group prize may be competed for by 

 an entire school or by all the schools in a city or 

 town. Again, it may be competed for by a num- 

 ber of children not working in a school garden, 

 but connected with community work. 



There are only first prizes under the group 

 heads. 



One group prize was The Nature Library — 

 a set of fifteen volumes on nature subjects. This 

 is well worth winning for the school library. Three 

 of these sets were given. 



One went to the Roger Williams Park Garden 

 in Providence, R. I., because it was the "finest 

 looking garden of more than three years' cultiva- 

 tion." 



A second set was awarded to the Fremont 

 Street School, Lancaster, Pa., for "the finest 

 looking garden of less than three years' culti- 

 vation." 



The Trinity School Garden of Morris Cove, 

 New Haven, Conn., won the third of these prizes 

 because it represented "the greatest improvement 

 of an unsightly piece of ground." This repre- 

 sented work under city conditions. 



A similar prize had been offered for "the greatest 

 improvement of unsightly spots under city con- 

 ditions." The Waltham School Gardens, Wal- 

 tham, Mass., and the Huguenot School Garden, 

 New Rochelle, N. Y., were tied for this. So each 

 received a set of nine volumes on practical garden 

 subjects. This set of books is called The Garden 

 Library. 



Two other sets of The Garden Library were 

 offered, one for the school "having the best show- 

 ing of garden products at its annual exhibit" 

 and the other for the school or schools "dis- 

 playing the greatest variety of annuals." The 

 former was won by the Fairview Garden School, 

 Yonkers, N. Y.; the latter by the schools of 

 Worcester, Mass. 



The individual classes had the following classi- 

 fication and the prizes were given thus: 



To the boy or girl raising: The best flowers in 

 a home garden; the best vegetables in a home 

 garden; the best flowers in a school garden; the 

 best vegetables in a school garden; the greatest 

 variety of flowers or vegetables. This made five 

 competing classes. Three prizes were given under 

 each head: The first prize in all cases was three 

 volumes from The Garden Library, namely "The 

 Flower Garden," "The Vegetable Garden," and 

 "House Plants and How to Grow Them." These 

 first prizes were won by: 



Edward J. Vlasak, Chicago. HI. 

 Mabel J. Musser, Cleveland, O. 

 George Ackerley, Yonkers, N. Y. 

 Lina Svack, Yonkers, N. Y. 

 Roger Newton Perry, Worcester, Mass. 



Second prizes consisted of two books from The 

 Garden Library. These volumes were "The 

 Flower Garden" and "The Vegetable Garden." 

 The list of second-prize winners is as follows: 



Estelle Henckell, Rochester, N. Y. 

 Howard O'Connell, Providence, R. I. 

 William Duff, Yonkers, N. Y. 

 William Suttake, Yonkers, N. Y. 

 Paul Wilson, Groton, Mass. 

 R. Greenleaf Bruce, Waltham, Mass. 



The third prize, a year's subscription to The 

 Garden Magazine, was awarded as follows: 



John W. Nash, Seattle, Wash. 

 Azelmais Lewis, Garrison, N. Y. 

 Thomas Halley, Yonkers, N. Y. 

 Richard Quigley, New York City 

 Bernard Rich, New Rochelle, N. Y. 

 Morris Lipetz, New Rochelle, N. Y. 



This closes the contest of igio. The garden 

 year of 191 1 is with us. We shall be glad to send 

 out contest conditions to all wishing such in- 

 formation. 



New York. E. E. S. 



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Paper Pots 



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If interested in 

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