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WISCONSIN HORTICULTURE 
November, 1916 
good on account of their beau- 
tiful foliage which keeps its 
glossy color throughout the sum- 
mer and in the fall they change 
to a bronze shade which when 
planted along the edge of shrub- 
bery is very effective. They 
are absolutely free from insects 
and disease. The number of 
varieties among the peonies is so 
great and varied in color that I 
shall only mention a few of the 
old “stand-bys”: 
Festiva Maxima 
Delicatissima 
Madam Furtado 
Filix Crousse. 
Thermapsis Caroliniana is a 
plant that is not grown very ex- 
tensively but should be grown 
more. They are absolutely 
hardy, come early in the spring 
with their beautiful foliage and 
yellow pea-shaped flowers in long 
racemes. Then we have the 
well known Anthemis Tinctoria, 
also: 
Delphinium Chinensis and 
Formosum 
Gailardia grfl. 
Gypsophila paniculata 
Japanese Iris 
Lysimachia Fraserii 
Monarda Didyma. 
The phlox ranks a close second 
to the peonies, and by some 
growers are considered better 
than the peonies on account of 
their longer season. There are 
some beautiful varieties among 
them and should be grown more 
extensively. Such varieties as 
Panthean 
Bridesmaid 
Cocquillicot 
Frau Buckner 
Mrs. Lingard 
are well worth a place in any 
garden. Pladycodon .Jap. also 
claims our attention as well as 
Spirea Palmata, S. Aruncens, S. 
Venusta, and our old fashioned 
Hollyhock. 
Thalictrum Deptorocarpus is 
one of the newer ones, but has 
proved perfectly hardy and free 
blooming and should be grown 
extensively. 
Yucca Filamentosa and Ver- 
onica Spicata and V. Longifolia 
Subsessilis are well worth having. 
Aconitum Napellus, A. Bicolor, 
and Fisheri follow each other, 
Fisheri being very late. Ar- 
temesia Lactiflora is very good to 
cut as well as for ornament. 
Helianthus Multiflora, II. Miss 
Mellish, Hibiscus Crmson Eye, 
and Mallow Marvels are very 
showy. Lobelia Cardinalis the 
well known cardinal flower, Rud- 
beckia Newmania, R. Laciniata 
and Purpurea, Boltonia latis- 
quama, Helenium Autumnale su- 
perba are very showy and good 
for cutting, being that they come 
quite late in the season. 
All the varieties here men- 
tioned are perfectly hardy and 
easily handled and all can be 
propagated by divisions. 
Marketing Ideas 
The following letter from Mr. 
F. Kern well known in this state 
as a successful market man will, 
we are certain, be read with in- 
terest by all of our members who 
are directly or indirectly inter- 
ested in marketing fruit. 
Traverse City, Mich., 
Oct. 19, 1916. 
My Dear Cranefield: 
Just received your letter this 
morning and note date of meet- 
ing and what you say about the 
Illinois apple crop, and it set me 
thinking how that crop ought to 
be marketed. My suggestions 
are, as follows: 
Marketing is the one topic oc- 
cupying the attention of the 
Department of Agriculture at 
Washington and many of the 
State Agricultural Departments. 
There’s a reason. On the suc- 
cessful marketing of the crops of 
these United States depends the 
prosperity of the Agricultural 
and Horticultural interests, 
which are really the foundation 
for all prosperity; for, if these 
interests prosper, the United 
States prospers accordingly. 
New York has made a tre- 
mendous effort to aid the growers 
in the way of marketing. Michi- 
gan is making an effort in the 
grape sections. Wisconsin has 
done little as a State, but the 
Wisconsin State Horticultural 
Society has made an effort, and, 
in every instance, it has de- 
veloped that little can be done 
without first organizing the state 
or community. 
Wisconsin has more successful 
co-operative organizations than 
any other State in the Union; 
these principally creamery and 
cheese organizations, and, 
through organization, a market 
has been established for Wiscon- 
sin cheese that has put it at 
the head of the list. Wisconsin 
is known the world over as the 
greatest dairy slate in the United 
States. The State has natural 
advantages, but the wonderful 
progress of these two industries 
has not been the result of in- 
dividual effort. 
One of the first successful fmit 
districts in the Middle West was 
that at Sparta, but it was not 
successful as long as each in- 
dividual attempted to do his 
own marketing. That district 
organized one of the first Fruit 
Growers’ Associations in the 
Middle West, and, when the 
Pacific slope began to develope 
the fruit industry, Mr. Paul- 
hamus, of Puyallup, Washing- 
ton, went to Sparta to study co- 
operative organization, and from 
the information gained, he or- 
ganized the greatest organization 
of growers of small fruits in the 
United Slates, an organization 
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