Garden Competition for 1910 



The Garden in Your Town 



I HE publishers of American Homes and Gardens desire to an- 

 nounce a Garden Competition for 1910, and will offer $100 for 

 the four best planned, developed and successful suburban or 

 village garden. The Garden Competition Editor of American 

 Homes and Gardens wants to know if your garden is a success. 

 If so, write and tell him about it. Tell him how you planned and how you 

 planted your garden, and what success you had with it; tell him of the 

 plants with which you had the best results and the ones which were fail- 

 ures ; how you arranged for a succession of bloom ; how you made use of 

 the natural limitations of the plot and what mistakes you made. We want 

 you to help us so that we may help others to beautify their surroundings, 

 for this is the object of this competition. You need not be a skilled writer 

 to tell the story of your garden success. Tell it in your own way. 



$100.00 for Prizes 



For the best garden received we will pay : 

 For the first - $50.00 For the third - $15.00 



For the second $25.00 For the fourth $10.00 



Conditions 



Competitors for the prizes must comply with the following conditions : 



1A general description of the garden, consisting of not more than fifteen hundred words, giving the size of 

 the plot and the kind of plants used in planting, must be submitted. Give any details which you think 

 will be of interest. 



2 Drawings of the plot are to be made in black and white, drawn to the scale of eight feet to an inch, showing 

 the position of the various plants and shrubs. Name each variety of plant on the plan by a number, giving 

 a separate list with a corresponding number by which each plant may be identified. 



Photographs of the garden must be submitted. It will be of interest to send as many photographs of the 

 garden, taken from as many points of view and at different times in the summer, as illustrate the changes 

 in the garden's appearance to the dominance of certain flowers. The photographs must be printed on 

 printing-out paper and are to be not less than five by seven inches in size. A photograph of the site of 

 the garden before it was developed would add interest to the series. 



Descriptions, drawings and photographs are to be marked with a pseudonym which is to be enclosed in a 

 sealed envelope containing the name and address of the competitor. All descriptions, plans and photographs 

 are to be sent free of any name or address on them except the pseudonym. Express or postage charges 

 must be fully prepaid. 



Just as soon as the judges have rendered a decision upon the four best gardens submitted for this competi- 

 tion, they will notify the Editor who will open the envelopes bearing the pseudonym and containing the 

 competitor's true name, and will at once notify the successful competitors that they have won the prizes. 

 The Garden Competition Editor reserves the right to publish in American Homes and Gardens all piize 

 gardens and those gardens which in the opinion of the judges are worthy of honorable mention. The names 

 of those whose gardens are reproduced will be published with the photographs. 



Contributions are to be submitted to the Garden Competition Editor, American Homes and Gardens, Munn 

 & Co., Publishers, 361 Broadway, New York. 



The garden competition closes September 15, 1910. Contestants need not to be subscribers to American 

 Homes and Gardens, and no charge or consideration of any kind is required. No photographs, manuscript 

 or plans will be returned. 



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