Copyright 1916, by the Wisconsin State Horticultural Society, Madison, Wis. All rights reserved. 
Volume VII Madison, Wisconsin, December, 1916 Number 4 
The National. Congress of 
Horticulture 
Prof. Hansen of South Dakota 
is responsible for the name. It’s 
a high sounding name, euphon- 
ious, and should lend much to 
the success of the enterprise. 
The responsibility for the 
meeting which led to the found- 
ing of the Congress rests with 
Prof. W. H. Hutt of North 
Carolina and E. R. Lake of 
the Division of Pomology at 
Washington, president and secre- 
tary respectively of the American 
Pomological Society. 
The object of the meeting as 
expressed in the call and later 
I in the talks and discussions was 
the co-ordination of all the 
various forces now working for 
the advancement and uplift of 
horticulture in this country. 
The meeting was held in 
j Washington, D. C., Nov. 16th 
I to 18th and was attended by 
delegates from twelve states in- 
cluding three from the middle 
e l| west, Secretary A. W. Latham, 
M l of the Minnesota Society, Prof. 
N. E. Hansen of South Dakota, 
and the secretary of the Wiscon- 
sin society. In addition, our 
President, N. A. Rasmussen of 
Oshkosh who has taken a keen 
liberations and discussion and all 
were agreed that such a move- 
ment as here indicated would 
mean as much or more to horti- 
The city gardener must economize on space. Tomatoes grown like these require much 
time in training but give the maximum of yield for the minimum of space. A corner of Mr. 
H. N. Hobart's garden Oshkosh, Sept. 1916. 
interest in the movement at- cultural interests than does the 
tended on his own account and National Farmer’s Congress to 
at his own expense. general farming. 
Two days were spent in de- 
