THE WAR GARDEN VICTORIOUS 



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always been regarded as a fair day's "sprout." They 

 continued at this task until the entire lot of potatoes 

 was finished. Then they assisted other farmers whose 

 potatoes were sprouting; 

 for labor had become as 

 scarce on New Hamp- 

 shire farms as it was on 

 farms everywhere else. 



Thus these women not 

 only blazed a trail for 

 their sisters, but proved 

 what thousands of other 



women are provmg m m- 



duStry that woman not The community type of victory garden 



only is not an inferior workman, but that her nervous 

 make-up enables her to work faster than man. These 



^, women gardeners did their 

 \, share^in the fight for free- 

 dom — not merely that poli- 

 tical equality for which m.en 



and women struggled on 

 the fields of Europe, but 

 that greater freedom, hu- 

 man equality. Even to 

 that cause has the war gar- 

 den contributed materially. 

 If the work of these 



The sun shines for all types of garden 



young women proved anything, it was that in union 

 there is strength. The strength that comes from union 

 it was found advantageous to utilize in many another 



