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Show City Woman's Hobby Brings New Outdoor Beauty To 4-H Homes More than 100,000 4-H homes will be enhanced with new outdoor out-door beauty this summer because be-cause a city woman took up gardening as a hobby 20 years ago. Interest in growing flowers and plants began when she moved to a home in the country and saw the native beauty of so many rural homes scarred and neglected. She longed to do something about it. She particularly, par-ticularly, wanted to do it through the farm boys and girls so they, too, could experience the joys of restoring nature's handiwork and add a bit of their own, - This resourceful woman who has since become a renowned horticulturist is Mrs. Charles R. Walgreen, of Chicago. She reached these rural young folks with the help of the National Committee on Boys and Girls Club Work, of which she is a member. The Committee and Extension Service- cooperated and a plan was worked out. The result was the National 4-H Home Grounds Beautification program now being conducted by the Extension Service in Utah and 45 other states. Introduced 13 years ago on a nation-wide, scale, participation participa-tion has grown from a few thousand 4-H Club members to nearly 150,000 annually. Activities Activi-ties range from planting a small flower bed to a landscaping program extending over a period per-iod of years. For outstanding accomplishments accomplish-ments in the program, Mrs. Walgreen Wal-green offers incentive awards to county, state and national winners. win-ners. They are medals, watches and trips to the National 4-H Club Congress for eight top-ranking top-ranking 4-H'ers. |