SCHOOL GARDENS' COMPETITION.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 13719, 28 April 1910, Page 7

SCHOOL GARDENS' COMPETITION.

The following are the awards made by Messrs T. W. Adams and M. Murphy in the Schools' Garden Competition for 1909-10, and approved by the Board at its last meeting:—7

Class I.—The school garden showing the best educative work, the judges to b© supplied with details of work doner: Spreydon and Bromley (equal) 1, Woodend 3, Waddington highly commeaded. Classll.—-The best kept garden with the greatest variety of flowers, vegetables, and farm roots, etc. Consideration will be given to cultivation, neatness, and general appearance, and to absenco of weeds, as well as variety of flowers, their growth and quality, and points will be given to those gardens in which flowers are correctly named. Gardens will b© inspected in December, before Christmas, 1909, and in March, 1910.—Bromley 1, Ashburton 2, Halswell 3. Class lU.—Th© best kept garden of (a) flowers or (b) vegetables and farm roots, etc. Gardens will be inspected in December. before Christmas. 1909, and in March, 1910.—Haiswell 1, Spreydon 2, Bromloy

The prizes for each class were. aa follows: First £2, second £1, third 10s. In the case of Class I. th© Spier- . don n_d Bromley Schools divide-the- . . first and se-ond frizes. In Class 1., <"' tb© judges recommend that Wjaddfag-;- * '<, ijr, ton bo awarded a fourth prise. *- , _*H*|^j2i