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Show Enlist Children in Move Public-Spirited Men of Washington Offer Prizes for the Best Kept School Gardens. At a meeting of the Washington (D. C.) Florist cluh prizes wero offered of-fered for the hest ornamentation oi school gardens In order to stimulate Interest In tho competition between the schools. This Is another move In the direction of tho proper development develop-ment of the gardening spirit on the part of tho children of Washington. For some years they havo been under Instruction In the matter cf homo ami school garden work, and without ques tion Washington has benefited materially ma-terially In appearance as n result, but ' much yet remains to bo done. Tho . cppoittinltles at tho school buildings themseivcs havo net been fully utilized, util-ized, owing, In a largo measure, to ' the lack of funds. Tho children have j contributed themselves, with tho aid of their parents, to tho purchase cf supplies fcr schcol gnrden work, but their means aro limited. Further-' Further-' more, at many of tho schools tho con-' con-' dltlons pre unpropltious. Slost of the gicund is utilized for recreation pur-pate". pur-pate". After tho closing of the I schools the gardens are exposed to the MindnMsni of tho public, and by the first of July l'ttle remains to show for the diligent work thnt has been dono during tho spring. Nevertheless, fl all this menus Improvement. At tho IB homes of tho pupils flowers nnd vines jH are grown whero before there wns no HJ attempt nt decoration. Thcso Influ- H enccs rencli far, and tho school gar- 1 1 ilens stand virtually for n widespread ! social Improvement. j I |