Suggestions to Members 
1 . Keep the street clean. Remove weeds from space between 
street and sidewalk, and sow lawn seed. 
2. In the frcnt garden make a good lawn, plant flowers, shrubs 
and vines, and keep in order. 
3. Lay out your back yard in an orderly flower or vegetable 
garden, or both. 
4. Keep the yard clean, bury or burn all rubbish, or keep it in 
closed boxes or cans. 
Beware of flies. They breed in foul places, are carriers of all 
kinds of diseases, and, therefore, a source of danger to all. 
5. If you have no garden of your own, apply to the Secretary 
for a Vacant Lot Garden. 
A number of land owners having the scheme explained to them, 
and being well disposed toward it, gave permission to utilize their 
vacant lots in the Memorial School district. 
The committee thought it wiser to concentrate their efforts upon 
one particular district with a definite area, and thereby gain maximum 
results with a minimum of labor, money and time. We had fifteen 
acres plowed and dragged, as the land was not in a fit condition for 
spade work. 
One good and conspicuous plot was reserved for the use of eight 
older boys of the Memorial School and worked by them as a model 
plot under special supervision. 
The other land, fairly well distributed over the whole district, 
found work for seventy-five families. The average size of the plot is 
60 by 30 feet. Of these seventy-five families, nearly half had no 
gardens at home. The temporary ownership of a small plot capable of 
growing vegetables sufficient for the needs of a family of six persons 
proved of great benefit to them. 
The Collinwood Garden Club was an experiment, but, on the 
whole, a successful one. Necessary advice from experts and their own 
practical experience, combined with the keenness they have shown, should 
make a large number of its members into good gardeners. Others com- 
menced well enough, but when their backs began to hurt and the weeds 
to spring up, they followed the line of least resistance. 
In justification of some failures to make the best use of the land 
might be mentioned: 
1 . That we started the campaign rather late in the season. 
2. That the land had for years been neglected, had grown 
nothing but weeds, and in some cases the top soil had been carried off. 
3. That it lacked autumn cultivation and fertilizers. 
4. That the lack of knowledge of the people with whom we had 
to deal, sometimes led us to give gardens to unreliable persons. 
