THE WAR GARDEN VICTORIOUS 
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tants each had at command at least a few square feet 
that could be cultivated. And urban dwellers by the 
hundred thousands found vacant lots near their homes 
which could be utilized for food production. This great 
host of individuals, each working like his fellows for a 
common purpose, carried 
on what, in the aggre- 
gate, was a vast farming 
operation. 
In no previous war did 
women play so great a 
part as they did in the 
world war. Not only did 
hosts of them make mu- 
nitions in factories, but 
other hosts joined the 
men in the production of that other sort of munitions — 
the kind that grows in gardens. With the women who 
served as nurses, ambulance drivers, canteen helpers, 
and munition makers, should also be ranked the women 
gardeners. In thousands of instances women gardeners 
cultivated entirely, even to the extent of doing the dig- 
ging, the home food plot, while in thousands of other 
instances they shared with the men the task of caring 
for the war gardens. 
Thousands of letters have come to the National War 
Garden Commission from women gardeners. In order 
that the line service rendered by such women may not 
be forgotten, some of these communications are in- 
cluded in this record. A letter from Mrs. T. J. Ulery, 
