THE WAR GARDEN VICTORIOUS 103 



A. N. Gitterman, chairman of the war garden com- 

 mittee of the Department of Parks for the Borough of 

 Manhattan. The little garden-house which stood there 

 was dedicated in the spring of 1918, and from this 

 center were distributed large quantities of the National 

 War Garden Commission's books and other literature 

 to help the "city farmers" of Greater New York. The 

 work of this garden, like that of the millions of other 

 war gardens throughout the country, was helping to 

 keep the light burning on the Statue of Liberty at 

 the entrance of this great harbor of a free country. 



In his report at the end of the season to William F. 

 Grell, Park Commissioner of the Borough of Manhat- 

 tan, Mr. Gitterman said: 



We maintained two demonstration gardens, one at 

 Union Square, Fourteenth Street and Broadway, and 

 the other at Bryant Park, Forty-Second Street and 

 Sixth Avenue, where headquarters are maintained in a 

 model garden-house which was donated to the city by 

 the National War Garden Commission of Washington. 

 This garden has been a great success from its dedication 

 when President Pack turned the first spade of earth in 

 this most valuable garden-plot in the world. 



Intensive gardening was here profitably demonstrated 

 as is shown by the results achieved in the limited area 

 allotted to each variety. Small blackboards explained 

 each operation in the little garden when the supervisor 

 was working, planting, weeding, cultivating, thinning, 

 spraying, or picking. In addition, information in detail 

 was given on the special bulletin-board concerning in- 

 sects and their control, weeds and their relation to agri- 

 culture, spraying formulae, seed varieties, plant diseases, 

 and other garden data of interest to the war gardener. 



