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Gardening :
President Woodrow Wilson appeals to the
people to help provide food.
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May 1917 |
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Front Cover / Inside Front |
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Inside Back / Back Cover |
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211 |
Spring Time is Lilac Time AD |
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214 |
More Crops from Your Garden ADs |
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215 |
Manure, Catalog ADs |
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216 |
Nursery, Bulb ADs |
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217 |
Irrigation, Greenhouse ADs |
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218 |
Nurseries, Portable Houses ADs |
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219 |
Table of Contents |
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220 |
The President to the People
(Wilson's plea for gardens) |
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221 |
Among our Garden Neighbors |
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222 |
Papaya, Opal Anchusa, Cotton,
Japanese Knotweed |
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223 |
Gordonia, Building a Better Home,
Letters |
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224 |
The Month's Reminder |
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225 |
Summer Flower-Roots for Present
Planting - Gladiolus |
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227 |
Dahlia |
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229 |
New Deutzias Better than Old |
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230 |
The Rockery Idea in Edgings |
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231 |
Home Vegetable Gardens A
Patriotic Duty |
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233 |
How the Modern Lilac Came to Be |
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234 |
Victor Lemoine, Plant Hybridist |
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236 |
The Evolution of My Garden |
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237 |
The New Race of Hardy Astilbes |
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239 |
Prepare in May for Winter Flowers |
240
242 |
Novelties in Summer Flower-roots
and Bulbs |
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243 |
Flower Ads |
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244 |
The Fruit Garden -
Crown Grafting |
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245 |
Nursery ADs |
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247
248 |
How to Pot A Plant |
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247 |
Gladiolus, Evergreens, Trellis ADs |
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249 |
Lawn Mower, Nurseries ADs |
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250 |
Insurance by Protection |
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251 |
Flower ADs |
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252 |
Watermelon Stem End Rot |
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253 |
Lawn Mower, Flowers ADs |
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254 |
The Indigoferas for Late Flower |
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255 |
Shrubs, Rudyard Kipling, Humas ADs |
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Coming Events Club & Society News |
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257 |
Book ADs |
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259 |
Greenhouse, Birdhouse, Portable
Houses, Flag Poles ADs |
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261 |
Pottery, Greenhouse, Stoves, Wire
Cloth ADs |
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262 |
Companions for Larkspurs |
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263 |
War Air Generator, Listerine,
Stanley, Birdhouses ADs |
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Chicken Chowder, Fence, Portable
Poultry Runways, Oregon & California Railroad Co. Land Grants for Sale
(2,300,000 acres)ADs |
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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE - May 1917
page 220
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The President to the People |
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The White House,
April 15, 1917.
My Fellow Countrymen:
. . . Every one who creates or cultivates a garden helps, and
helps greatly, to solve the problem of the feeding of the nations;
. . . every housewife who practices strict economy puts herself
in the ranks of those who serve the nation. This is the time for America
to correct her unpardonable fault of wastefulness and extravagance. Let
every man and every woman assume the duty of careful, provident use and
expenditure as a public duty, as a dictate of patriotism which no one
can now expect ever to be excused or forgiven for ignoring.
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The supreme need of our own nation and of the nations
with which we are coöperating is an abundance of supplies, and
especially of foodstuffs. The importance of an adequate food supply,
especially for the present year, is superlative. Without abundant food,
alike for the armies and peoples now at war, the whole great enterprise
upon which we have embarked will break down and fail. The world's food
reserves are low. Not only during the present emergency, but for some
time after peace shall have come, both our own people and a large
proportion of the people of Europe must rely upon the harvests in
America.
Upon the farmers of this country, therefore, in large measure rests
the fate of the war and the fate of the nations.
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The time is short. It is of the most imperative
importance that everything possible be done, and done immediately, to
make sure of large harvests. I call upon young men and old alike and
upon the able bodied boys of the land to accept and act upon this
duty—to turn in hosts to the farms and make certain that no pains and no
labor is lacking in this great matter.
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The supreme test of the nation has come. We must all
speak, act, and serve together!
Woodrow Wilson.
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