

JUNALUSKA. 
50c each 
$10.00 dozen 
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DEFENSE GARDENS 
SHAH JEHAN ae As this catalogue is ready to go to press, bulletins are being received calling 
25¢ each - 4 attention to the fact that it is the desire of the United States Department of 
$2.50 dozen Agriculture to stress the importance of maintaining and increasing the number 
Sea Pane 25 and extent of flower gardens as a definite and important factor in uplifting public 
morale. We are reminded that, even in England today, flower gardening is 
encouraged and flower shows are still popular. Certainly there is no better tonic 
for mental worries, and no more effective means of relieving nervous strain, than 
to spend a portion of one’s spare time working in the flower garden among beau- 
tiful flowers; and there is a definite uplifting influence in a community of beautiful 
gardens and parks, which our Government does not wish to overlook. ‘“The 
Garden Committee of the United States Department of Agriculture recognizes 
that at no time does it seem more important that home and municipal flower 
gardens and parks be stressed than now” is the way it is expressed by Andrew S. 
Wing, Editorial Director of Garden Digest, who is now working with this com- 
SAN DIEGO mittee. Morale is a necessary ingredient of defense, and beauty is an antidote to 
25c each many ills. And so, as long as we may, we are going to carry on in our chosen 
SE dozen field of helping to spread beauty throughout the land through the medium of 
thousands of gardens and parks. 
Fortunately our paper and printing for this year’s books and folders was con- 
tracted for long before the United States entered the war, so we are hopeful of 
being able to continue our program this year of sending out various mailing 
pieces from time to time; these mailing pieces being sent at the times that the 
items listed in them should be ordered for planting. What the future holds in 
store for us we do not know. In all probability this will be the last year we will 
be able to send out colored printing. Therefore I recommend that this catalogue, 
and other literature which you will receive this year, be preserved for future 
reference. Because of the fact that it has been so readily obtainable in the past, 
it is not often realized that there is more color work in this one book alone than 
can be found in the average $3.00 Horticultural Book. It is worth keeping. One 
noted English plantsman informed me that he has them bound as library pieces. 
In the future, in all probability, only price lists, or very brief descriptive lists, 
will be sent out, so these publications sent to you this year will be found handy 
for future reference. 
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