Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-04-23
$1OO In PRIZES IS
OFFERED In CONTEST
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ing is begun. Then when summer is
preparing to wave scarlet-leaved
good-by to 1915. the aesthetic and ma
terial reward to Harrisburg will be
very evident
The Grown-Ups, Too
For years the outdoor department
OF the Civic Club has conducted a gar
den contest for the school children of
the city, and while the Telegraph's
movement to help bring about a more
beautiful Harrisburg will be conducted
! on much the same lines, no age limit
to the gardens will be insisted upon.
prospective garden competitors must
! only observe a few important points,
| however, in going in for the prizes:
Ftrst-Application for entry to the
lists must be mailed to Miss M W.
Buehler. 2S2 North Second street, by
| May 1.
Second - Entry must be filed by
! postcard.
Third-Each entrant must provide
his or her own plants or seeds and
after admission to the garden compe-
tition has been filed the gardener or
gardeners may go right ahead devel-
oping the plot or window box or porch
space.
Fourth-Anybody in the family can
beautiful scheme by producing as
many home gardens as can possibly be
urged to bloom.
The Inspection Tours
Heading the outdoor department of
the Civic Club are Miss Buehler and
Mrs. Edwin s. Herman and while they
VIII be at the head of the garden
movement they will be assisted by
some sixty or more members who will
act throughout the summer as in
spectors"
After the list of garden entrants
has been prepared Miss Buehler and
Mrs. Herman will take a big city man
into the library, lock the doors, dis
connect the telephone receivers and
put in some busy hours of uninter-
rupted labor at plotting the city into
districts. To each district one or more
inspectors will be assigned, whose job
VIII be to get around to each garden
TWO or three times during the sum-
mer. The first visit will be to see that
the applicant is truly in earnest and
that he or she has started the garden,
The other visits during the summer
and the time will be withheld from the
contestant-will be to keep tabs" as
1t were, on the development of the
plot or window box. The final visit
will be fraught with much significance.
That will be when the data to decide
the awards will be gathered.
The Three Standards
just three important phases of the
home gardens will be considered par
ucularly. too. by the Civic Club judges.
They will be:
improvement and development.
Application and care.
General effect.
Each one will count so many points. |
ana IN judging many things will be
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lures. For instance, under the head
OF Improvement and development"
the progress that had been made over
the same plot or box or porch garden
of the previous year will be consid
cred; under the head of application
ana care the manner in which the
gardener, small or large, has labored
and the difficulties that had TO he
overcome will be CAREFUL weighed: |
while under the head of general eff |
feet the color scheme, attractive an |
pearance, etc, will be included in the |
sions.
Boosting the Big Work
The number of the prizes and the !
variety of purpose affords ample op-
portunity for most anybody to enter
the competition.
For after the bulk OF the money is |
distributed among the particular prizes |
there will still be five 81 awards that
may be distributed at the discretion |
of the. committee.
Harrisburg already boasts of some |
very lovely gardens-here and there
one may still find one of the old |
fashioned hollyhock, pink and dahlia |
rose and lilac filled gardens that the !
eVer-stretching miles of asphalt and |
granolithic walks have not obliterated: |
some of Harrisburg's porches boast of /
gardens that are extraordinarily ef- |
fectlVe; front lawns offer attractive |
color schemes; the yards of Harris |
purg $ manufacturing establishments |
are noted for these artistic and color |
tul enectS; many of the tallest office |
buildings boast of window box dis |
blays that are very we'll worth while.
The Modest Soap Box
But the half has not heen fold
When summer says good-by this wear
Harrisburg should have a real place
on the flower garden map of the
country.
For after all if the back ward or
porch plot is impossible, if the front
grass plot isn't available-the window
box possibilities remain.
And mere application at the gro |
GERS for Just an empty soap box will /
readily fill the bill.
So. Mr.. and Mrs. Harrisburger and |
all the little Harrisburgers, get ont
your spade and dig.
The moneys waiting.