July, 1918 



THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



267 



den Commission of Washington and the 

 "eats" were distinctly Hooverian. J. W. 

 Ince had charge 



the details. 



of 



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She was born on American Independence 

 Day. That is the reason why Jean- 

 nette S. Hamburger, of Baltimore, 

 believes she should have a war 

 garden in addition to the other 

 patriotic things she has done, such 

 as buying a Liberty bond of each 

 issue and war savings and thrift 

 stamps. More than 5,000,000 war 

 gardens in the United States this 

 year are working for Freedom. 



Edward E. Yeaton, secretary of 

 the Lynn (Mass.) War Garden Com- 

 mittee advocates limiting the size of 

 children's gardens to ten feet by ten. 

 If allowed to have bigger plots, says 

 Mr. Yeaton, the youngsters become 

 discouraged and fail to get the best 

 results. Better a little well done, he 

 says, than failure on a larger bit of 



land. 



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John J. Farmer reports that the 

 Remington Arms Company at its 

 Bridgeport, Conn., plant is making 

 ammunition of two kinds. It has 

 supplied the workmen as far as pos- 

 sible with garden plots on forty acres 

 of land owned by the concern; and 

 that employees living at a distance 

 from the company's property have 

 been provided with such plots in the 

 vicinity of their homes through the 



local war garden commission. 



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Pint Bluff, Ark., has increased 

 its war garden enrollment 1,500 per cent, 

 over that of last year; more than 700 

 persons have gardens as against 47 entries 

 last year. R. Louthan, chairman of the 

 Rotary Club War Garden contest, is offer- 



ing two hundred and fifteen dollars in garden 



prizes. 



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High school grounds at Nogales, Arizona, 

 have been planted in wheat and every avail- 



Model War Garden at Camp Dix. — Camp Dix with its 48,000 soldiers has 

 the biggest army garden in the country thanks to the National War Garden Com- 

 mission of Washington which sent the boys nine truck loads of seeds and imple- 

 ments. Capt. Bethke of the Quartermaster Corps was all ready with a baby war 

 garden for a model for the soldier-farmers 



able plot of ground that can be irrigated by 

 pumping is now in crop. Ground that has 

 been idle for years is being utilized and no 

 plotj suitable for planting within a radius 

 of five miles is unused. Fruit drying is on 



and trays filled with model fruit are being 

 shown. 



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"Wellington is right up in the baldheaded 

 row in war garden work, as she has been in 

 every other war activity," writes A. 

 W. Lynn secretary of the Wellington 

 (Kans.) Commercial Club to the Na- 

 tional War Garden Commission at 

 Washington. He adds that every 

 available bit of ground has been 

 planted and five war garden clubs 

 have been formed. 



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Tractors, working night and day, 

 furnished by the Preparedness Board, 

 have plowed under vacant lots in 

 Lansing, Mich. Beans and potatdes 

 were planted. 



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Three thousand war gardens 

 have been planted as the result of a 

 well-organized garden campaign at 

 Bellingham, Washington. TheCham- 

 ber of Commerce hired a supervisor 

 and secured the cooperation of the 

 Rotary Club, Advertising Club, Real 

 Estate Association, Board of Edu- 

 cation, Woman's National-League for 

 Service and the National War Gar- 

 den Commission. 



Needing money to rent lots 

 for war gardens, residents of Me- 

 dina, Ohio, gave a community en- 

 tertainment and raised a fund which 

 not only paid for the lots but also 



for the plowing. 



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Hawaii this season has deserted 

 the ukelele for the hoe, and war 

 gardens are the rage. Artistic posters, con- 

 tributed by the National War Garden Com- 

 mission adorn shop windows and J. F. 

 Child, the food administrator is leading a 

 "drive" for canning and gardening. 



Soldiers Plant "Real" War Garden. — The soldiers of the American Army are going to help feed themselves. They started the first "war garden" at any of the training 

 camps in the Lnited States at Camp Dix, N. J., and for this purpose nine big motor trucks loaded with seeds, fertilizer, cultivators, and other tools were donated by the 

 National War Garden Commission of Washington, Charles Lathrop Pack, president. Lieut.-Col. Edmond Tompkins, Quartermaster at Camp Dix in centre of pictu e. Capt. E. V. 

 Champlin is in charge of the 400 acre war garden 



