52 THE WAR GARDEN VICTORIOUS 



Thus, in teeming army camps and on isolated moun- 

 tain-tops, on the wide reaches of the prairies and in 

 sun-splashed openings in the dusky forests; beside 

 roaring factories and in sequestered nooks on which 

 deer and bear peer shyly from near-by leafy coverts, 

 there have sprung up innumerable war gardens. In 

 riding across the country one sees them beside the rail- 

 road right of way, in back yards, small and great, on 

 lawns and in open fields, in every conceivable place 

 and of every imaginable size — sees these living emblems 

 that tell, as truly as the tiny Liberty Loan button on 

 the coat-lapel, where the owner stands and what he 

 stands for, because a war garden is a service badge 

 of living green. 



