Children could work in gardens, too. A government program called the United States School Garden Army encouraged kids to feel that by gardening, they were fighting in France alongside the men in the trenches. Gardening, wrote President Wilson, "is just as real and patriotic an effort as the building of ships or the firing of cannon." Designed by Edward Penfield (1866-1925) was prolific illustrator for many American publications like Harpers, Scribners, Colliers, and Saturday Evening Post.