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A First- Year War Garden 4 



On Historic Ground 6 



A Typical City Garden 8 



A Veteran War Gardener 10 



No " Slacker Land " Here 18 



One of Cleveland's War Gardens 20 



No \Vonder She Smiles 22 



Garden of a Chicago Ajnateur 26 



In an Italian Garden 28 



In the Champion Garden City 30 



Medal in Commemoration of the War Garden 32 



The War Gardener's Boast 34 



Pioneers in Summer Hotel Gardening 38 



An Army Garden at the Red Cross Threshold 42 



A Prize-Winning Garden 44 



" Now, Boys, Show 'Em How to Harvest " 46 



" Potatoes Up ! Forward March ! " 48 



Gathering the Potatoes 50 



Going Out to Meet the Crop 52 



What a Factory Worker Did 54 



All the Family Helps 56 



A Versatile Manufacturing Concern 60 



War Garden Display in Bank Window 62 



Nationality Made No Difference 64 



This Is Not Neptune 66 



On Pennsylvania Railroad Ground 68 



Some Railroad " Soldiers of the Soil " 70 



Along the East River Front 74 



One of Cleveland's School Gardens 76 



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