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Wisconsin Horticulture 
Published monthly by the 
Wisconsin State Horticultural Society 
12 N. Carroll St. 
Official organ of the Society. 
FREDERIC CRANEFIELD, Editor. 
Secretary’ W. S. H. S., Madison, Wis. 
Entered as second-class matter May 13, 
1912, at the postoffice at Madison, Wis- 
consin, under the Act of March 3, 1879. 
Advertising rates made known on appli- 
cation. 
Wisconsin State Horticultural Society 
Membership fee fifty cents, which in- 
cludes twenty-five cents subscription price 
of Wisconsin Horticulture. Remit fifty 
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son, Wis. 
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OFFICERS. 
N. A. Rasmussen, President Oshkosh 
D. E. Bingham, Vice-President 
Sturgeon Bay 
L. G. Kellogg, Treasurer Ripon 
F. Cranefield, Secretary Madison 
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. 
N. A. Rasmussen Ex-officio 
D. E. Bingham Ex-officio 
L. G. Kellogg Ex-officio 
F. Cranefield Ex-officio 
1st Dist., A. Martini Lake Geneva 
2nd Dist., R. J. Coe Ft. Atkinson 
3rd Dist., H. H. Morgan Madison 
4th Dist., Henry Wilke Milwaukee 
5th Dist., G. V. Holsinger. . . .Wauwatosa 
6th Dist., H. C. Christensen Oshkosh 
7th Dist., Wm. Toole, Sr Baraboo 
8th Dist., O. G. Malde Grand Rapids 
9th Dist., L. E. Birmingham Sturgeon Bay’ 
10th Dist., G. L. Richardson 
Chippewa Falls 
11th Dist., J. F. Hauser Bayfield 
BOARD OF MANAGERS. 
X. A. Rasmussen F. Cranefield 
L. G. Kellogg 
The Institutes 
The Fruit and Garden institutes 
conducted by Pres. Rasmussen and 
Mr. Bingham are proving a big 
success. Twelve of the special in- 
stitutes have been held and all were 
well attended. These two practi- 
cal men are preaching the gospel of 
horticulture in Wisconsin as it was 
never preached before. We have 
had fruit men at the regular farm 
institutes for years hut usually the 
fruit man would drop in for a half 
hour talk sandwiched between 
poultry and alfalfa and dodge 
quickly out of town in order to 
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make the next institute and repeat 
the performance. 
This was very good in a way but 
not good enough. 
By the present plan a smaller 
audience, men and women who are 
interested in the home orchard and 
garden or perhaps in the market 
side of fruit growing, gather for a 
two-day study of problems of prun- 
ing, spraying, cultivation, garden- 
ing etc. 
What we started to say is this: 
From Feb. 8th to March 8th the 
nine remaining institutes of the 
original list published in the Dec- 
ember number of Wisconsin Horti- 
culture will be held as follows: 
La Farge. Feb. 6th and 7th ; Rich- 
land Center, Feb. 8th and 9th ; 
West Bend, Feb. 13th and 14th; 
Egg Harbor, Feb. 15th and 16th; 
Waupaca, Feb. 20th and 21st ; 
Weyauwega, Feb. 22nd and 23d; 
Harmony Corners, Feb. 27th and 
28th; Green Bay, March 1st and 
2nd ; Eau Claire, March 6th and 
7th. 
Every member of this society 
who lives within a radius of five 
miles of any of these points has a 
two-fold duty to perform ; first to 
attend the institute ; second to take 
along some one who does not be- 
lieve that it pays to plant fruit 
trees or make a garden. Don’t 
wait for an invitation, you have 
one already. 
Let’s Hear From You 
Now is the time to write some- 
thing for Wisconsin Horticulture ; 
next spring you will he too busy. 
There must be something of past, 
experience stored up in your mind 
that will he of interest and value 
to our readers. Remember, but 
few readers of Wisconsin Horticul- 
ture care for philosophy, prophecy 
or fine-spun theories hut they do 
want plain, simple directions for 
doing the essential tilings in garden 
and orchard. What, variety of 
T U R E February, 1917 
garden peas do you plant? Why ? 
How do you get them so early? 
What are your favorite varieties of 
all the garden vegetables you 
grow? You have finer asters or 
sweet peas than your neighbors, 
how do you manage to do it? Did 
you spray the apple trees last 
year? What results? Do you 
know of any handier and easier 
way to do things than the ordinary 
way ? 
These and a thousand other ques- 
tions that amateur gardeners and 
fruit growers delight to read. It 
will help you to write them and it 
will help others. Try it once. 
Don’t feel that you must frame 
finely polished sentences, that you 
must be a skilled writer, that part 
counts least of all. The best con- 
tribution ever sent to this office and 
one that caused much favorable 
comment was the first attempt by 
a practical man who sent with it a 
letter of apology; that’s the kind 
that are worth their weight in gold. 
The Best Horticultural Paper 
A person way up in Rusk county 
where the effulgence of Wisconsin 
Horticulture (effulgence is defined 
by Webster as, “extreme bril- 
liancy, radiant splendor”) ; lias 
not yet penetrated asks us to name 
the best horticultural paper pub- 
lished in the United States. Mod- 
esty, that diffidence that has always 
been our chief est charm, compelled 
us to be content with the statement 
that {here is no other journal of 
horticulture that can compete, in 
some ways, with Wisconsin Horti- 
culture. That and a copy of the 
paper was as far as we cared to go. 
Then later, when in a more trivial 
mood, the following comments on 
other papers were added : From the 
standpoint of journalism Better 
Fruit, monthly, published at Hood 
River Oregon is the best horticul- 
tural paper in the country. It is 
