52 THE WAR GARDEN VICTORIOUS 



Thus, in teeming army camps and on isolated moun- 

 tain-tops, on the wide reaches of the prairies and in 

 sun-splashed openings in the dusky forests; beside 

 roaring factories and in sequestered nooks on which 

 deer and bear peer shyly from near-by leafy coverts, 

 there have sprung up innumerable war gardens. In 

 riding across the country one sees them beside the rail- 

 road right of way, in back yards, small and great, on 

 lawns and in open fields, in every conceivable place 

 and of every imaginable size sees these living emblems 

 that tell, as truly as the tiny Liberty Loan button on 

 the coat-lapel, where the owner stands and what he 

 stands for, because a war garden is a service badge 

 of living green. 



