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community. Meantime, the committee can receive 
applications from those desiring gardens, and assign 
convenient plots as soon as arrangements can be made 
with the owners. Thus it is possible, with compara- 
tively little difficulty, to provide for the working of 
every foot of available garden land in the community. 
In the gardening itself there should likewise be cooper- 
ation. In every town may be found retired farmers or 
experienced truck growers or a county agricultural 
agent; and arrangements should be made with some such 
trained worker to give advice and instruction as to 
selecting the crops best suited to the soil and as to the 
details of planting and cultivation. Where such indi- 
vidual is not available, sometimes it is desirable to 
raise a fund that may be used to hire a garden expert 
to supervise the work. Where possible, the cost of 
supervision should be borne from a general fund raised 
by the organization in charge. If this is not practicable, 
the individual gardeners should pay it in proportion to 
the size of their plots. The supervision should extend 
over the entire gardening season. 
A group of gardeners should be organized just as any 
other association is organized, with its executive head 
and its directing committees. Various problems are 
bound to come up each season, and these can be 
handled better through committees than if the indi- 
viduals themselves or a few of them attempt to solve 
them. The executive head should have general super- 
vision of the work and for this reason should be, if 
possible, some person who is familiar with gardening. 
