Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 224, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1917 — The War Garden. [ARTICLE]

The War Garden.

Representative Mason of Illinois «ald in Chicago the other day: “One way to keep down prices Is for every family to set up its own vegetable garden, but the trouble is that most of us are as ignorant of gardening as the chap who wrote to the seedsman: “‘As I wish to do my bit for the allies by growing my own provisions on a strip of rocky ground back of my house, please send me, f. o. b, one dozen potato seeds, one bee with hive complete, one dozen fruit seeds assorted, ten square yards of grass, one path, six feet of wall flowers with wall, and one dozen -flour plants. I am especially particular about the grass, which should be green, end not the brown kind I see In so many gardens.’ ”