THE WAR GARDEN VICTORIOUS 83 
When the problem is being worked out, whether for 
the first time or for a realignment of forces and appor- 
tionment, an inventory of the town’s gardening re- 
sources should be taken. A survey for this purpose can 
be made by existing agencies, or a special force or com- 
mittee can be appointed for the purpose. A complete 
community survey in a town should include all lands 
within the district, private yards as well as vacant 
lots. The Chamber of Commerce, the Board of Trade, 
or the Civic Club is naturally the nucleus for such an 
effort; but the school board or a church or political 
club can conduct the work just as effectively. The 
local Council of Defense, the Mayor’s War Committee 
or a similar organization should help. Through these 
agencies communities in all parts of the United States 
were intensively organized for the war-garden campaign 
conducted in 1917 and again in 1918. 
When it is known that there is such united effort 
back of a movement, it gains in strength and prestige 
and there is greater stimulus to the individual worker. 
People will enter with more vim and enthusiasm into 
a task which has the backing and support of all their 
fellow-townsmen. Public meetings should be held to 
enlist interest and to secure more general cooperation. 
At these meetings there should be addresses by some 
of the leaders in community thought, in addition to 
discussion of the work by those who are more directly 
concerned with it's operation and guidance. 
In making a survey of the available garden space in 
a city or town, there are certain well-established meth- 
