In this one spot he remedies all the evil that the battle brings. 
Within the limits of his impeccable hedge, he is victorious. Leaning 
on his spade he watches the distant prairies that cannot ignore the 
fact that men are fighting, that suffer in the poisoned air; but for 
himself and his garden he has confidence in the wind, the sun, and the 
rain. The unconquerable verdure will return. 
His work is to care for his plants. No one can say that during the 
war he did not do his duty. People would stop to look over the hedge 
at the magnificence of his flowers. The eyes of women would grow 
big at the sight of his rose trellis. Their lips would sigh for one 
flower. The silent gardener can never explain what his work has to 
do with the war, but he knows what he has to do. More assiduously 
he devotes himself to his task. The louder the roar of the cannon, the 
more vigorously he thrusts his shining spade into the beloved earth. 
His field of glory is his garden. 
Pierre Hamp in Le Jar din. 
Should the 
Garden Club Organize as a Unit 
for War Work? 
The following letter has been sent by Mrs. Martin to the presidents 
of all member Clubs. In the July issue was recorded the work that 
each Club individually was doing. Would it be wise to organize for 
concerted action? 
Philadelphia, July 27, 1917. 
At the meeting of the Women's Committee of the Council of 
National Defense, held in Washington, to which the Presidents of all 
National Women's Organizations were invited, I offered the resolu- 
tion of the Garden Club, passed at its Annual Meeting on June 13, 
1 91 7, offering its co-operation to the Council. 
You may be interested to hear that with the exception of the Wo- 
men's Farm and Garden Association, the Garden Club of America 
was the only organization out of some seventy-odd national organiza- 
tions represented which has as one of its activities the "production of 
food." 
I have just received a letter from the Chairman of the Women's 
Committee of the Council of National Defense asking that the indi- 
vidual Garden Clubs get in touch with the Chairman of the Council 
of National Defense of their States. I trust that your Club will be 
willing to offer its co-operation to the State Chairman, Mrs. William 
