HOW THE WAR GARDENERS ANSWERED 



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thanks for what they have done in furthering this 

 movement. 



The canning "drive" which has followed the garden 

 campaign this year has assumed unprecedented propor- 

 tions. It seems to have carried all before it, and the 

 women of the United States who have been largely 

 responsible for this phase of the work seem to have taken 

 literally the slogan on the Commission's famous canning 

 poster and to have "canned the Kaiser" with such an 

 immense supply of "food reserves" that he will never 

 be able to escape from this overwhelming army now 

 lined up on the pantry shelves. 



Community canneries established in numerous places 

 throughout the country testify to the universal favor 

 of the garden corfservation undertaking. Supplemented 

 by individual workers who have preserved a considerable 

 portion of their summer garden crop, these community 

 canneries have added much to the food wealth of the 

 Nation which will help to keep the supply always needed 

 in order that there may be no shortage for our men who 

 are in France and for the Allies. 



Not only was the value of the garden product grown 

 this year far in excess of that raised last year when the 

 work of the Commission was getting under way, but the 



IN BRYANT PARK THE CORN STALKS BLOOM 



This is the "Little Garden House" in the "Million Dollar Garden" in Bryant Park on Forty-second Street, New York City. The National War 



Garden Commission distributes thousands of pieces of literature here to all who ask. 



