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WISCONSIN HORTICULTURE 
October, 1916 
Cranberry Notes 
(Continued from page 19) 
Cranberries stimulate the ap- 
petite and aid digestion. If 
served freely at meals, either in 
the form of sauce, jelly to spread 
on bread, or in some form of 
dessert, they will prove extreme- 
ly beneficial to the general 
health. 
Cranberries can be kept per- 
fectly throughout the summer by 
sorting, washing, and seahng the 
raw fruit in glass or earthen jars 
tilled with cold water which has 
first been boiled. Select sound 
berries only for this purpose. 
MUCH OF INTEREST HERE 
(Interesting notes by Irving 
C. Smith, teacher, gard- 
ener and philosopher, 
living at Ashland, 
Wis.) 
THE DELICIOUS APPLE 
It may be of interest to those 
who are contemplating the set- 
ting of Delicious apple trees to 
know that we set six trees a few 
years ago and they did very 
well in growth and lived over a 
mild winter. Two years ago they 
killed to the snow hne. The 
roots were strong and they start- 
ed a new growth, but they killed 
to the snow line on a cold 
winter, and we have had two of 
them in nine years. 
APPLES AT ASHLAND 
We have been picking a few 
bushels of apples this season and 
are very much pleased with the 
fine clean fruit. Very little scab. 
Have Duchess, Okabena, 
Wealthy, Whitney, Yellow 
Transparent, Tetofsky, Hiber- 
nal, Wolf River, Mackintosh 
Red, and Dudley, and all have 
some fruit and none have had 
any injury by winter killing. 
Even if there are no more hardy 
varieties we have some of the 
very best on the list. 
We have seen a good deal in 
the papers of the very dry and 
burned up condition of things in 
the southern part of the state, 
but up here in the North we are 
not in a bad way at all. I w r as 
out in our little Alfalfa field 
today and the third crop is 
coming into bloom and is nearly 
knee high. That might be worse. 
Say! fellow members, do you 
know it is a relief to me to be 
off the executive board, (prob- 
ably you are more glad than I), 
but now if I am too busy or can 
not get away because of green 
house building, or some other 
reason, I do not feel that I must 
go to every society meeting. 
And once there I can enjoy things 
and do as I please. I know the 
Lake Geneva meeting must have 
been fine, but things were too 
thick here to leave. I have not 
died or lost interest, just taking 
a little vacation. You know Mrs. 
Smith and I went on our honey- 
moon vacation trip a couple 
winters back and in all our trip 
we did not see any better country 
to live in than Wisconsin. Of 
course it is fine to go down to 
Florida in the winter and get 
all full of grass ticks (chiggers) 
and eat oranges right fresh from 
the trees and pick lemons for 
the pie at the back door, and 
have grape fruit for breakfast 
every morning, but, before we 
got out of the state we saw a 
few apples and bought four for 
ten cents. They tasted like 
more. (They were not Ben 
Davis). 
I went to see a “lovely” 
garden down there, and I should 
be ashamed to have any of you 
come here (of course you don’t 
come any way) if my place 
looked no better than that one. 
Wisconsin is a good place to 
live in. 
FALL SETTING OF STRAWBERRIES 
We have been experimenting 
some with setting strawberry 
plants in the fall, and feel that 
there is a point here which 
should be brought to notice. 
Our plants set last fall are a 
solid mass of plants now — we 
are afraid they will be too thick, 
while the spring set plants are 
doing fairly well with only about 
25 per cent of the plants the 
fall set rows have. 
This season we are setting all 
of our bed this fall, and spacing 
the plants 3 feet apart in the 
row. It is not too late to set 
them now if you have things in 
good shape. I have set them 
up to about Oct. 1st, with good 
results. 
By the way, we have a few 
Progressive (only they look like 
Superb) and we forget to pick 
them. That shows how highly 
we prize them here, in the season 
of apples, and pears, peaches, 
and plums, apricots and grapes, 
melons and tomatoes and all the 
rest of the lot. It looks to me 
that is where the fall bearing 
strawberry will come out. In a 
few special cases it will be of 
value at home or on the market. 
Most of us have so many other 
fruits in the fall they are not 
appreciated. 
Delphinium, or larkspur, that 
was cut back when through flow- 
ering last spring is making a fine 
showing in autumn. 
Trees and shrubs may be set 
in autumn, but as a rule it is 
better to wait till spring. Large 
trees with a ball of frozen earth 
about the roots may be moved 
to advantage late in the autumn. 
