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VALUE CP GARDENING 
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“Those who are guiding this move- 
ment for a vastly expanded program 
of fruit and vegetable production. are 
evincing, it seems to me, a very ‘sane 
attitude toward the. question of main- || 
taining beauty. What they say about ~ 
keeping our flowers, plantings and- 
shrubbery on our grounds | and. plac- 
ing other things that engage the eye 
and induce a happy mood should be 
heartily upheld. There is no particu- 
lar virtue in ugliness, and our soldiers 
_ will not fight one whit. less vigorously |. 
for our country if they remember it a 
as a place of lovely lawns and fra- : 
grant blossoms. There is plenty of 
good. potato land without. taking that 
on which ¢ our Lilies grow, and all be 





‘out Nac telvitig. ‘the Pansies. rs Fi 
flowers are destroyed, some of our 
spirit goes with them.’’—Dr. “Samuel 
’ W. Hamilton, United | States Public 
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