THE WAR GARDEN VICTORIOUS 103 
A. N. Gitterman, chairman of the war garden com- 
mittee of the Department of Parks for the Borough of 
Manhattan. The little garden-house which stood there 
was dedicated in the spring of 1918, and from this 
center were distributed large quantities of the National 
War Garden Commission’s books and other literature 
to help the “city farmers” of Greater New York. The 
work of this garden, like that of the millions of other 
war gardens throughout the country, was helping to 
keep the light burning on the Statue of Liberty at 
the entrance of this great harbor of a free country. 
In his report at the end of the season to William F. 
Grell, Park Commissioner of the Borough of Manhat- 
tan, Mr. Gitterman said: 
We maintained two demonstration gardens, one at 
Union Square, Fourteenth Street and Broadway, and 
the other at Bryant Park, Forty-Second Street and 
Sixth Avenue, where headquarters are maintained in a 
model garden-house which was donated to the city by 
the National War Garden Commission of Washington. 
This garden has been a great success from its dedication 
when President Pack turned the first spade of earth in 
this most valuable garden-plot in the world. 
Intensive gardening was here profitably demonstrated 
as is shown by the results achieved in the limited area 
allotted to each variety. Small blackboards explained 
each operation in the little garden when the supervisor 
was working, planting, weeding, cultivating, thinning, 
spraying, or picking. In addition, information in detail 
was given on the special bulletin-board concerning in- 
sects and their controj, weeds and their relation to agri- 
culture, spraying formulae, seed varieties, plant diseases, 
and other garden data of interest to the war gardener. 
