2G8 Wisconsin State Horticultural Society. 



remedy. Grapes were very free from mildew or other 

 diseases. 



Apples were very free from blight but better; rot in the 

 center of fruit developed late in the season. 



There was the usual number of wormy apples. 



White cricket still weakens the canes of raspberries. 



Currants are but little grown, because people will not 

 learn the value of white hellebore. 



Rose culture is much neglected, because there is some 

 trouble in getting rid of the slug. 



Red spider caused more general injury than all other in- 

 sects combined, although most persons supposed the effects 

 of their presence was the direct result of dry weather. 



Hemlocks, spruces and^ perhaps other evergreens, suffered 

 from an insect of the same class, but I think not red spider. 

 Some trees were killed, and perhaps many. 



Vegetable Gardening. 



Farmers generally raise more weeds than vegetables, and 

 among market gardeners there is more competition in num- 

 bers of growers than quality of products. 



Floiver Culture, etc. 



In the towns people incline more to pot culture of flowers, 

 with some exceptions. 



Farmers generally cannot spare room and time for flow- 

 ers, or raise too much poultry. Generally too much poultry. 



The attention which farmers, as a class, give to ornamen- 

 tal horticulture is, in a great measure, controlled by their 

 prosperity. When times are hard, less attention is given to 

 outside home decoration. 



The beauty to which some of the best evergreens through 

 the country have attained, shows that the planting of this 

 class of trees has been too much neglected. Now, that 

 good size has been reached, and where there are spacious 

 surroundings, our native evergreen=t, the white and so- 

 called Norway pines, are superior to others for beauty. Our 

 native hemlock would be entitled to first place if it were 

 not for its slow growth. 



