The call to arms thus repeats itself to all Victory Gardeners, and the gardeners can 
go back to their labors with the feeling of a job well done and an added impetus to 
repeat the fine performance. 
MORE FOOD 
The shortage of manpower, equipment and transportation was an important 
threat toward the decreased commercial production of many food items. The horti- 
cultural interests as a whole lent great assistance and the nurseries ot Jackson & Per- 
kins Company last year led the way with a banner production of fresh vegetables and 
other foods. 
Over 350 acres of tomatoes helped to supply much tomato juice and many cases 
of canned tomatoes. Fifty acres of potatoes, one hundred acres of beets and car- 
rots, one hundred twenty acres of peas for canning, seventy-five acres of beans and 
several hundred of cereal crops all helped swell the food supplies. This, of course, 
was additional to large production of fruit and nut trees for the future. 
Naturally as great an effort as this occasioned considerable disruption of gen- 
eral production schedules and even though Herculean efforts were made to produce 
roses, shrubs and perennials, the production of food, the drafting of much of the 
skilled labor and the unusual drought all combined in the formation of one of the 
smallest crops in history. Yet even though the flowering plants are less plentiful the 
food crops were good and there is great promise of extra plants for the flower gar- 
dens for next year. 
SPRING TRIMMING OF ROSES 
There are many schools of thought on spring trimming of roses and, of course, a 
winter discussion drops almost into the sphere of the now popular armchair strate- 
gists. 
We in the colder part of the country need not consider the very high pruning 
too seriously for unless we actually spend almost unlimited amounts of time com- 
pletely covering our plants with soil, the winter freezes will take our plants down to or 
just above the normal covering line. 
Mrs. Harriett Foote, the loved and eminent rosarian of Marblehead, Massa- 
chusetts, has an immense compost pile in her garden which she uses each year to 
protect the tops of her roses. She, with this ardent care, has rose bushes in her stern 
climate equal to those in the balmier coastal areas of Oregon and Washington. But 
that is not for the roses of Mr. Smith and Mr. Jones. The present trend of all gar- 
dening is to make it as simple as possible, always retaining the idea of maximum pro- 
duction of growth and flowers and a minimum of unusual care. 
With that in mind, we proceed to remove our top cover of hay, straw or leaves 
after the danger of real frosts is over, for the ground underneath is frozen and must 
be thawed out before the hilled up soil can be removed. 
