CHAPTER X 
COOPERATION IN GARDENING 
Unity in the “Second Line of Defense” 
F ORTUNATELY the movement to coordinate 
gardening activities in America, from the outset, 
met with sympathetic response. Thanks to the 
loyal cooperation accorded the National War Garden 
Commission, there was never any Question of the success 
of the garden campaign. Such question as there may 
have been was merely as to the extent of that success. 
At no time was there hesitation on the part of those 
enlisted in the army of the soil as to carrying out the 
suggestions made to them. In a spirit of loyal and 
hearty cooperation organizations of all sorts and indi- 
viduals of all classes throughout the United States 
worked with the Commission to overcome every obsta- 
cle that threatened the success of the food-production 
campaign. 
Merely to tabulate the names of the various clubs, 
committees, and individuals who helped in this move- 
ment would require a volume. Such a list would 
include hundreds of state, county, and local organiza- 
tions which through their officers, committees, and 
branches stimulated the interest of their own members 
and of others in war gardening. It would contain the 
names of hundreds of chambers of commerce ^nd other 
trade bodies; city and county officials; mayors and 
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