% VICTORY GARDENS 



This may be the 50th year you have been making a fruit and vegetable 

 garden. It may be your first attempt. In either case you cure entitled to call it a 

 VICTORY GARDEN. Any effort which tends to increase the total food supply of 

 the country in wartime is worthy. 



In your garden you will have vegetables, flowers and fruits. We want to 

 show you here what thousands already know, that strawberries make the ideal 

 fruit crop for the home or victory garden. Here axe some of the reaisons. 



1. Strawberries are easy to grow — any good garden soil is suitable. 



2. They come into bearing more quickly than any other fruit crop. 



3. They are first to ripen in the season, coming on before many other garden crops have even been 

 planted. 



4. Every member of the family will be "crazy about" fresh strawberries, the kind you can grow 

 with our improved modern varieties. 



5. They'll like strawberry shortcake, too, and all the other good things, made with strawberries. 



6. Strawberries are not only delicious to eat, they are very healthful, being one of the best of all 

 sources of Vitamin C. 



7. To get extra money for yourself or the youngsters no crop is more attractive or easier to 

 sell than strawberries. 



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This leads us to the idea o£ an "oversized family berry garden" or PROFIT PLOT. A straw- 

 berry proHt plot makes a nice little business — with unusually good prospects of gain for the land, 

 labor and expense involved. It's a logical crop for boys and girls with vocational projects. A worth- 

 while sideline for farmers whose main crops do not conflict. For 

 part time workers or those who work short hours it will provide a 

 delightful hobby with gain to both health and pocketbook. It's -^l^flf^^^^^Sf^ %/ 



worth some thought — and action! 



