i;6 THE WAR GARDEN VICTORIOUS 



the Alexandria (Egypt) Gazette, and Le Messager de Sao 

 Paulo, Brazil; and were published from Calcutta, India, 

 and Tokio, Japan, to Montreal, Canada. The Asahi 



News, a Japanese newspaper 

 of Seattle, gave hearty sup- 

 port to the Commission and 

 published much of its advice 

 and instruction to gardeners 

 and home canners. 



Magazines of general in- 

 terest and many house- 

 organs cooperated in the 

 campaign and published ar- 

 ticles dealing with various phases of war gardening. This 

 applied to conservation as well as to the productive 

 phase of the work. As an illustration, the Ladies' 

 Home Journal pub- 

 lished an entire page of 

 pictures of women who 

 had been blue-ribbon 

 winners and had re- 

 ceived the Commis- 

 sion's National Capitol 

 Prize Certificates for 

 excellence in canning 

 garden products. The 

 Outlook printed from time to time a number of appre- 

 ciations of the value of home food growing. The 

 Garden Magazine, of Garden City, Long Island, used a 

 number of stories on the subject and printed a monthly 



