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The war garden victorious / by Charles Lathrop Pack ...
LIBRA - Athenaeum of Philadelphia Circulating SB83 .B3
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pack, Charles Lathrop, 1857-1937.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Vegetable gardening--United States.
- Vegetable gardening.
- Gardens and war.
- History.
- United States.
- World War, 1914-1918--Food supply--United States.
- World War, 1914-1918.
- Victory gardens.
- Gardens and war--United States--History--20th century.
- Physical Description:
- xiv pages, 1 leaf, 179 pages, 1 leaf, 32, 32 pages including color frontispiece, illustrations, plates (part color) ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : J.P. Lippincott Company, [1919]
- Contents:
- How the National War Garden Commission came into being
- The story of the war garden
- How war gardens helped
- Types of war gardens
- Uncle Sam's first war garden
- How big business helped
- How the railroads helped
- The army of school gardeners
- Community gardening
- Cooperation in gardening
- War gardens as city assets
- The part played by daylight saving
- The future of war gardening
- Conserving the garden surplus
- Community conservation
- Conservation by drying
- Why we should use dried foods
- The future of dehydration
- Cooperation of the press.
- Notes:
- Appendix: two of the victory books issued by the commission, "War gardening," Victory edition, 1919; "Home canning and drying," Victory edition, 1919.
- OCLC:
- 425762
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