Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-04-24
SCORES OF GARDENS
HAVE BEEN PLANNED
Announcement of Ex-Postmaster's
$100 Prize Offer Hailed With
Delight BY Hundreds
FOR A "CITY BEAUTIFUL"
Civic Club Will Have Supervision
of Contest; Notice of Entry
Must Be Filed by May |
Did you start your garden yet?

Dlu you start your garden YET!
No? Then you had better get busy
and file your application at once. be-
cause the 500 prize contest for the
best home gardens, offered by ex-
Postmaster f. ]. Stackpole on behalf
of the Telegraph, is on in earnest.
Mr.. Stackpole announced his offer
yesterday through the Civic Club
whereupon all over town hundreds of
would-be gardeners, young and old,
enthusiastically fell to with renewed
vigor.
Harrisburg already has boasted of
many attractive home gardens-front
and rear yard, porch and window
boXes-but the Telegraph offer is
bound to increase the interest in the
big movement to insure a more beau
tiful city.
The Prizes
Most everybody in the city by this
time knows the terms of the prize offer
but there may be few who didn't get
their papers in time last evening or
this morning, so here's a little explana-
tory tip for them:
Yard. front or rear-First prize,
S25; second, SO; third. So.
Porch-Eirst, SIS; second, So;
third, So.
Window box-First, $40; Sec
ond. So: third, 81.
Building Observation-Disclosures, $40;
second, S5.
Special - Best results under
worst conditions, So; five prizes
TO be awarded at discretion of
committee. ST each.
The competition is open to every
body regardless of age, race. color, or
sex. Each would-be gardener, of
seeds or plants and must plan his or
her own garden. All that is manda-
tory is for the prospective contestants
to file notice of the intention to COM
pete by postcard to Miss NJ. w. Bueh-
ler, 232 North Second street. Miss
Buehler with Mrs. Edwin S. Herman
will have charge of the outdoor de-
partment of the Civic Club under
whose Jurisdiction the garden contest
will be conducted.
Notices I'm BY May
After the postcard notice has been
sent in to Miss Buehler all the gard
ener need bother about throughout the
summer will be the garden. The best
and most conscientious efforts, OF
course, will show the best results al
the end of the season. Two or three
times during the summer n committee
of nspectors-there will be some sixty
members of the Civic Club enlisted for
| the purpose to district the city-wil
call around and look the garden over
Upon these reports will be figured
out the averages of the contestants
Just about the time summer is pass
| ing the prizes will be awarded. AnC
then. too, the results of the contest will
! be more than ever apparent; Harris
! burg will have taken another stride
| forward in making itself a truly "cit!
| beautiful"
! Since the Telegraph's prize an
nouncement was made public some
| folks may have had the idea that tht
| contest is open only to youngsters
| That is wrong-all wrong. Grown up
F., in the family, the whole family in fact
can join in developing the garden.
The Judging Points
| Just a final word as to what TIT
gardens will be judged upon. Herr
are the points:
Improvement and development.
| Application and care.
General effect.
Now that means first, that the com
parative improvement that has beer
made over previous years garden al
well as the percentage of development
that has been obtained will be one O.
the essentials; the care and attention
which the gardener devotes to his OF
her plot or window box, will be anoth
er point upon which the general aver
age will be based; and the effective
ness of the finished product--the colol
scheme. planning of the beds, etc.
these will be considered in the fina
analysis
! Just one week from to-day-May
the time limit for fling notice of en-
| try in the competition expires. Don
| delay.