Garden for Victory 
Hon. CiaupE R. Wickarp, Secretary, United States De- 
partment of Agriculture, at the National Victory Garden 
Conference, said: “I know there is a tremendous psycho- 
logical value in having things for people to do in war 
time. Gardening is one activity that has great possibili- 
ties as a useful outlet for that urge to do something. 
There’s a spiritual uplift in seeing things grow.” 
Richardson Wright, Editor of House and Garden on the 
same occasion expressed a great truth when he spoke the 
following: “It is as necessary for the maintenance of 
morale to grow flowers, as it is necessary to supply the 
body with fresh vegetables—a rose, an iris, a peony may 
do more for us in hours of stress, worry, and doubt than 
a bushel of parsnips or a ton of dehydrated carrots.” 
The United States Department of Agriculture, through 
its Garden Committee, has pointed out that “There is not 
now an emergency that warrants the promotion of city 
backyard vegetable gardening under the unfavorable and 
unproductive conditions which generally prevail in 
