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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



April, 1912 



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Awards in the Children's Garden 

 Contest 



OCTOBER, ign, saw the close of our third 

 garden contest for children. We hold this 

 contest annually to encourage children to garden 

 and to garden intelligently. Each year a better 

 quality of work is submitted, one of the rules of 

 the contest being that children and schools must 

 send to us written records of the gardens, as well 

 as pictures. The pictures might be far better. 

 When a photograph is used for magazine purposes 

 it must be very good for in reproduction it loses 

 much of its detail and many of the snap shots sent 

 in are of no use. 



Helpful gardening books and Garden Magazine 

 subscriptions are offered as prizes. There are 

 three groups or classes in the contest. Class I. 

 is for individuals; first, second, and third prizes 

 are given in each section of this class. The first 

 prize is three books — "The Flower Garden," 

 "The Vegetable Garden," and "House Plants and 

 How to Grow Them" — taken from the Garden 

 Library. The second prize is "The Flower Gar- 

 den" and "The Vegetable Garden." The third 

 is a year's subscription to The Garden Maga- 

 zine. 



Classes II. and III. are for schools, and but one 

 prize is given in each. Class II. has for a prize 

 The Nature Library. To be sure this is not on the 

 subject of gardening but includes nature subjects 

 in general. If two schools in this class are tied, 

 each school receives The Garden Library. This 

 library is also the prize offered in Class III. 



The prize winners in the contest just over are 

 as follows: 



CLASS I 



A. The best flowers raised in a home garden: 

 i. Mabel Jane Musser, Cleveland, Ohio. 



2. Irene Lincoln, Marlborough, Mass. 



3. No award. 



B. The best vegetables raised in a home garden: 



1. Howard O'Connell, Providence, R. I. 



2. Ferris Malcolm, Highland, N. Y. 



3. Richard Barclay, Highland, N. Y. 



C. The best flowers in a school garden: 



1. Margaret Scheid, Lancaster, Pa. 



2. Mary Cerreto, New Rochelle, N. Y. 



3. No award. 



D. The best vegetables raised in a school garden: 



1. Abram Kuhms, Lancaster, Pa. 



2. Karl Vandroff, New Rochelle, N. Y. 



3. Mabel Morris, Jersey City, N. J. 



E. The greatest variety of vegetables: 



1. No award. 



2. Robert Plues, Detroit, Mich. 



3. Byron Paltridge, Highland, N. Y. 



F. The greatest variety of flowers: 



1. Roger Newton Perry, Worcester, Mass. 



2. Jacob Block and Irene Riley, New Rochelle. 



N. Y. 



3. Sadie A. Barron, Somerset, Pa. 



G. The finest specimens of corn: 



1. No award. 



2. E. Winslow Stratton, Marlborough, Mass. 



3. No award. 



A. The finest looking garden of three years' or 

 more cultivation: 



No award. 



B. The finest looking garden of less than three 

 years' cultivation: 



Sterling Street Garden, Boston, Mass. 



C. The greatest improvement of school grounds 

 or unsightly spots directly under the care of 

 contestants: 



1. Under city conditions: 



a. St. Mary's Park School Garden, New York 

 City. 



b. The Riverside Garden, Brooklyn, N. Y. 



2. Under country conditions: 

 Ardonia School, Highland, N. Y. 



A. The best display of garden products: 



Roger Williams' Park Garden, Providence, R. I. 



B. The greatest variety of annuals: 

 Marlborough School and Home Association, 



Marlborough, Mass. 



