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WISCONSIN HORTICULTURE 
September, 1916 
Wisconsin Horticulture 
Published monthly by the 
Wisconsin State Jlortic ul t ural , Society 
12 N. Carroll St. 
Official organ of the Society. 
FREDERIC CRANEFIELD, Editor. 
Secretary W. S. H. S., Madison, Wis. 
Entered as secona-ciass matter May, 13. 
1912, at the postoffice at Madison, Wiscon- 
sin, under the Act of March 3, 1879. 
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OFFICERS. 
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D. E. Bingham, Vice-President 
Sturgeon Bay 
L. G. Kellogg, Treasurer Ripon 
F. Cranefield, Secretary Madison 
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. 
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L. G. Kellogg Ex-officio 
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2nd Dist., R. J. Coe Ft. Atkinson 
3rd Dist., J. A. Hays Gays Mills 
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Madison, Wis- 
At Geneva Lake 
Owing to the very limited 
time intervening between the 
summer meeting and “copy” 
day for this issue of Wisconsin 
Horticulture no extended ac- 
count of the summer meeting 
can be given. Editor Higgins’ re- 
port clipped from the News 
appears elsewhere in this num- 
ber and is most excellent from 
the standpoint of a newspaper 
man but it fails to express in any 
degree the feelings of those who 
saw for the first time the beau- 
ties of Geneva Lake and for the 
first time realized, perhaps, what 
wonders can be accomplished by 
a happy combination of money 
and brains when applied to 
landscape gardening. Verily the 
lily may sometimes be painted 
to advantage. 
Wednesday Aug. 23, was the 
biggest, best and most perfect 
day ever experienced by many 
if not all of our members, at 
least as concerns sightseeing. 
Kindly keep in mind always that 
it was due to the generosity and 
good will of the Lake Geneva 
gardeners that we were able to 
spend such a perfect day. 
Summer Meeting 
One of the most successful 
mid-summer meetings ever held 
by the State Horticultural So- 
ciety closed with a banquet to 
160 people at Hotel Geneva last 
night. 
The meeting was opened at 
Horticultural hall at ten o’clock 
Tuesday morning and a very 
interesting program occupied the 
members for the rest of the day. 
Wednesday was given over to en- 
tertainment and the members of 
the State Society as guests of the 
Gardeners Association, boarded 
the steamer Harvard and made 
the tour of the lake, visiting a 
number of the shore places and 
taking noon lunch at Fontana. 
The first stop was made at 
Ceylon Court, the home of Mr. 
J. J. Mitchell, where the beau- 
ties of the grounds and gardens 
brought forth many exclama- 
tions of admiration. The Loreli, 
Mrs. C. Seipp’s home was the 
next stop and here, after viewing 
the beauties of the place they 
were entertained with a light 
lunch by Mrs. Seipp and Mr. 
and Mrs. Henry Bartholemay. 
On the north shore a stop was 
made at Jerseyhurst, the home 
of Mr. and Mrs. F. T. A. Junkin, 
to see the Grapery which is cer- 
tainly a sight worth seeing, then 
the homes of M. A. Ryerson, 
Mrs. A. Allerton, A. C. Bartlett, 
S. B. Chapin, Mrs. N. W. Harris, 
Edw. F. Swift and Charles L. 
Hutchinson were visited and the 
party returned to the city and in 
automobiles supplied by the 
Lake Geneva Commercial Club, 
went to Yerkes Observatory and 
making the drive around the 
lake, inspected the state orchard. 
The trip on the steamer Harvard 
under the careful piloting of Capt 
C. A. Johnson, was especially 
enjoyed. 
Wednesday evening at 8:30 
o’clock visiting members of the 
State Society and delegates were 
guests of the Gardeners Associa- 
tion at a banquet served at Hotel 
Geneva. 
The program of toasts was 
under the direction of F. M. 
Higgins as toast master and the 
responses were short and snappy 
to a degree. 
Each of the visitors who spoke, 
referred to the marvelous beauty 
of Lake Geneva and its surround- 
ings and to the thorough manner 
in which they had been enter- 
tained, complimenting the Gard- 
eners Association and Commer- 
cial Club upon their mode of 
welcoming the “stranger within 
their gates,” and voiced their 
desire to have another one of 
their summer meetings here in 
the near future. And as the 
last strains of Mrs. Eames’ song 
died into hushed silence each 
one felt that “They had found 
at the close of a perfect day the 
soul of a friend they’d made.” — 
Lake Geneva News. 
Practice seed-selection for to- 
matoes and beans as you do for 
corn. 
