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<% Homes and Gardens wants to know about it—he will pay $200 
in prizes for the five best-planted, developed and _ successful 
suburban or village gardens. Write to the Garden Competition 
Editor and tell him how you planted your garden and what success you 
had with it; tell him of the plants with which you have had the best results, 
and also those which have been failures. Send him a good photograph 
and a plan of the garden. We want you to help us so that we may help 
others to beautify their surroundings. You need not be a skilled writer to tell 
a story of your garden success. Tell it in your own way. 
$200 for Prizes 
For the best garden received we will pay: 
For the First, - - - $100.00 
For the Second, - - 50.00 
For the Third, = 25.00 
For the Fourth, - - 15.00 
Hopthe Mitth 29 = = 10.00 
Conditions 
Competitors for the prizes must comply with the following conditions: 
A general description of the garden, giving the size of the plot and the kind of plants 
used in planting. 
Drawings of the plot are to be made, preferably on a scale of eight feet to the inch, 
showing the positions of the various plants and shrubs. 
Photographs of the garden are to be sent printed on solio paper and should not be less 
than 5x7 inches in size. If possible to do so, please also send a photograph showing 
the garden before planting. 
Descriptions, photographs and drawings are to be marked with a pseudonym, which is to 
be enclosed in a sealed envelope containing the name and address of the competitor. As 
soon as the judges have decided upon the five best gardens they will notify the Editor, 
who will open the envelope bearing the proper pseudonym and containing the competitor’s 
true name. The competitor will be notified by the Editor that he has won the prize. 
5 The Garden Competition Editor reserves the right to publish in American Homes and 
Gardens all 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 photograph. 
6 Contributions are to be submitted to the Garden Competition Editor, American 
Homes and Gardens, 361 Broadway, New York. 
7 The Garden Competition closes September 15, 1909. Contestants need not be sub- 
scribers to American Homes and Gardens, and no charge or consideration of any kind 
is required. Vo photographs, manuscripts or plans will be returned. 
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