Do you know that the Millbrook Garden Club Canning Depart- 
ment will can your vegetables free if you will help in this service on 
certain days during the Summer or it will do the work without 
your help for three cents a jar if you furnish them a good Mason 
jar. If you have no jars the Club will provide jar and ring for 
seven cents. 
Do you know that by failing to grow and conserve food stuffs 
YOU IN THE COUNTRY are failing in doing your bit and by growing and 
conserving all that you possibly can manage, you are not only assuring 
your own supply but you are doing your patriotic duty in releasing 
from the public stores provisions for our boys fighting for us at the 
front. 
Let us help feed ourselves ! 
Let us help feed our soldiers ! ! 
Let us help win the war ! ! ! 
Mary L. Miller. 
The Garden Association of Newport 
The chief activity of the Garden Association during the past 
summer was the Fruit, Flower, and Vegetable Market held once a 
week in the Trial Garden, Material to be sold in the market was con- 
tributed from private gardens, and attractively displayed for sale 
every Saturday afternoon. Prices were slightly lower than those cur- 
rent in the retail shops, and many of the poorer people of Newport 
were thus able to buy vegetables of the very best quality for a small 
outlay. The sum of $300.00 was the net result of the season's sales, 
which was equally divided between the local chapter of the American 
Red Cross and the American Fund for French Wounded. The 
$150.00 handed to the latter organization has been devoted to the 
purchase of fruit trees for the devastated regions of northern France. 
We hope next Summer to extend our market idea, and at the 
same time, if possible, to combine it with food conservation, which 
we think can be made a very practical undertaking. 
(Harper's Bazaar for November has published a very interesting 
illustrated account of the market.) 
Philadelphia Garden Club 
The Philadelphia Garden Club decided that the instruction of 
eight groups of Boy Scouts and one group of Girl Scouts in vegetable 
gardening should be one of their war works. Altogether, about six 
acres and a half were cultivated, and large crops were produced. 
Beans with large root crops, have given splendid winter foods. What 
has pleased us most is that ten or twelve from each scout troop have 
learned gardening really well, so that they can produce successfully 
