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War Gardens Triumph in Nation’s Food War Effort
John Dickinson Sherman reviews The War Garden Victorious by Charles Lathrop Pack, praising wartime gardens that fed millions and strengthened national spirit. He notes the national war garden commission, public press support, and corporate and railroad involvement, with remarkable results from 1917 to 1918 and plans for lasting garden culture through the United States school garden army and community projects.
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John Dickinson Sherman
America
Earth
Europe
Atlantic
Pacific
Oregon
Arizona
Middle West
Texas
Charles Lathrop Pack
Gale
Pack
National War Garden Commission
United States
Thomas Edwards
Oberlin
Mr. Pack
Jsand
Liberty Loan
Red Cross
Pick
National War’ Garden Commission
Quartermaster General
Casips
New Jersey
Luther
Burbank
California
P. P. Claxton
United States Commissioner of Education
Washington, D.C
Charles W. Eliot
Massachusetts
Irving Fisher
Yale University
Connecticut
H. Goff
Ohio
John. Hays
Hammond
Fairfax Harrison
Virginia
Myron I. Herrick
John,Grier Hibben
Princeton University
Emerson McMillin
New York
A. W. Shaw
Illinois
John, Dickinson
Sherman
Conservation Department
The
General Federation of Women's Clubs
J. B. White
Missouri
James Wilson
Agriculture
Iowa
Carl Vrooman
Ridsdale
American Forestry Association
Commission
Norman ©. McLoud
Department of the Interior
United States School Garden Army
Camp Dix
Crusaders
Marion
Victory Garden
United States Bureau of Education
United. States
Education
United’ States
J. H. Francis
Francis
Claxton
Wilson
United ‘States
Garde Army
Lane
Arden Army
Arsmany
Fruncta
Peelala
Garden Army