102 THE WAR GARDEN VICTORIOUS 



Even a beautiful city park system loses none of its 

 charm when a part of it is turned to utilitarian purposes. 

 Historic Boston Common was none the less attractive 

 to the passer-by during the season of 1918 because a 

 fine demonstration war garden was growing at one 

 side of it. Even when the necessities of war do not 

 make it such an important and desirable prospect, a 

 trim and well-cultivated series of vegetable plots such 

 as displayed their patriotic beauty there, would not 

 detract from the natural beauty of the landscape. 



Potomac Park, in the shadow of the tall and stately 

 Washington Monument, was a constant source of 

 pleasure to the thousands of automobilists who sped 

 along the river driveway. In the afternoon and twi- 

 light the sight of hundreds of war gardeners cultivat- 

 ing their vegetable patches in sight of the White House 

 and the majestic dome of the Capitol was a picture 

 never to be forgotten. Down at the lower end of the 

 Chesapeake Bay near where busy transports were 

 loading their precious human freight and their supplies 

 for France, the Commission on Beautifying the City of 

 Norfolk took charge of the war-garden campaign and 

 conducted it to a successful conclusion, adding more 

 than $200,000 worth of vegetables to the food wealth 

 of that rich truck-growing section of the country. 



In New York City an extremely interesting war 

 garden was growing in Bryant Park. There in the 

 heart of the great metropolis, shaded by over-towering 

 sky-scrapers and beside the majestic public library, 

 a small war garden spoke its message to the world. 

 This demonstration plot was under the direction of 



