1.   An agricultural land alliance also has been formed to consider buying smaller tracts on the fringe of town for community gardens or vegetable farms.

2.   Around the corner, on East Second Street, McNeil pointed to a fenced-in community garden.

3.   As she ambled from her studio to her community garden on a recent afternoon, she pointed to an apartment building on Seventh Street.

4.   A community garden would be sweet.

5.   A good community garden, he said, raises property values as Central Park turns adjacent real estate to gold.

6.   After a day of visiting community gardens in Boston last fall, Ball mesmerized an audience of Massachusetts Horticultural Society trustees at the Ritz-Carlton hotel.

7.   But many community gardens are ramshackle lots, and many are essentially personal fiefdoms of people who get free private yards during a severe housing shortage.

8.   But their defenders do not claim that everything should be a community garden.

9.   Cabbage patches and sunflowers sprout in one community garden.

10.   Community gardens are sprouting all over the city.