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THE WAR GARDEN VICTORIOUS 
Thus, in teeming army camps and on isolated moun- 
tain-tops, on the wide reaches of the prairies and in 
sun-splashed openings in the dusky forests; beside 
roaring factories and in sequestered nooks on which 
deer and bear peer shyly from near-by leafy coverts, 
there have sprung up innumerable war gardens. In 
riding across the country one Sees them beside the rail- 
road right of way, in back yards, small and great, on 
lawns and in open fields, in every conceivable place 
and of every imaginable size— sees these living emblems 
that tell, as truly as the tiny Liberty Loan button on 
the coat-lapel, where the owner stands and what he 
stands for, because a war garden is a service badge 
of living green. 
