L. L. MAY & CO. 
ST. PAUL, MINN. 
Best display of Flowers, 1st to 4th grades, 5th to 8th 
grades. 
Best Specimens of Vegetables, 1st to 4th grades, 5th to 
8th grades. 
Best Essay on Gardening, 1st to 4th grades, 5th to 8th 
grades. 
Economic prizes for the best paying piece of ground 
(plots of equal size competing) may be offered, i. e. 
The plot that pays most in money or in pounds of market- 
able provender is to receive the award. 
One little girl in Tippecanoe City, Ohio, sold $10.00 worth 
of tomatoes from one penny packet of seed, thereby winning 
this prize in the competition. 
Various other awards will suggest themselves to the 
interested spectator, and a lively committee is necessary to 
secure the prizes, and arouse the general enthusiasm. 
WHAT OTHER CITIES ARE DOING. 
The large cities all over the United States have taken up 
this work, either through clubs, or associations, or through 
their boards of education. St. Paul last year had an enthusi- 
astic Garden Club, under the leadership of a coterie of women, 
well qualified for the task. Teachers, as well as children, took 
up the idea avidly. The Garden Club found itself (or them- 
selves) swamped with demands for seeds, and the results were 
far in excess of anything they had anticipated. 
Minneapolis has been quoted before as one of the banner 
cities in the extension of the Children's Gardens. It was not 
only schools and clubs, there, that took up the movement, but 
newspapers, (the Minneapolis Tribune had large gardens for 
children) ; business houses and commerce associations joined 
in the city beautiful idea, and helped the children make every 
vacant lot blossom. 
In Cleveland it was the Cleveland Plain Dealer with the 
co-operation of Mr. H. L. French, a councilman of Cleveland, 
and business city officials, among them Mr. John Boddy, who 
brought out, and propagated, the idea of children's gardens, 
with the idea of keeping the children ot¥ the street. A festival 
of the products of these gardens was held in Wade Park, and 
