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WISCONSIN HORTICULTURE 
May, 1917 
A Good Garden Bulletin. 
The Home Vegetable Garden, 
Farmers’ Bulletin No. 255, U. S. 
Department of Agriculture. Free 
for the asking. 
Three Good Garden Books. 
For the amateur who wants the 
how rather than the why and 
wants it right away, Vegetable 
Gardening by Greene, the Webb 
Pub. Co., St. Paul, will prove a 
source of great comfort. 
How to Grow Vegetables, 
French, the Macmillan Co., and 
Productive Vegetable Growing, 
Lloyd, cover both principles and 
practice. 
No Poultry Department. 
The full page reproduction of 
the poultry poster is by way of 
co-operating with the Agricultur- 
al College, to circulate more fully 
a most excellent plan for in- 
creasing food supply. It does 
not mean a permanent poultry 
department. 
Help Offered. 
Communities desiring garden 
help are requested to notify this 
office. A practical gardener will 
be sent on petition of ten or more 
persons at the expense of the W. 
S. H. S., who will visit gardens 
for half a day and meet the gar- 
deners in the evening to answer 
questions. This may prove to be 
a big contract, but we will do our 
best to fill it. 
Good annuals for cut flowers 
are marigolds, sweet peas, calli- 
opsis, asters, scabiosa, petunias, 
snapdragons, nasturtiums, and 
zinnias. 
A LARGE STOCK OF 
Apple, Cherry and Plum Trees, Grape Vines, 
Blackberry and Raspberry Plants, 
and Strawberry Plants 
Both Everbearing and common varieties 
And a general line of ORNAMENTAL TREES, SHRUBS and ROSES. 
All stock clean and thrifty, the best that can be grown in Wisconsin. 
GREAT NORTHERN NURSERY CO. 
Write for catalog and prices Baraboo, Wis. 
A Dozen Different Dahlias For A 
Dollar, Post-paid 
All good popular varieties. A collection that will please you. 
Strong “toes” or divisions. Order at once before you forget. 
A dollar will do it. 
WILLIAM TOOLE & SON 
Garry-nee Dule .'. Baraboo, Wis. 
The Kickapoo Valley 
Our Speciaty: Planting and developing orchards for non-residents. 
A few choice tracts for sale. If interested, write us. 
THE KICKAPOO DEVELOPMENT COMPANY 
GAYS MILLS, WISCONSIN 
Ask Questions. 
Amateurs are implored to ask 
questions. No matter how sim- 
ple or how complex the problem 
may be, come forward with it. 
A personal reply is assured in 
every case. This service is ren- 
dered to all, without money and 
without price. 
The following hardy plants 
make good cut flowers, coreopsis, 
hardy chrysanthemums, delphin- 
iums. Spanish and German iris, 
lupine, peonies, phlox, golden 
glow, sweet william, gaillardias. 
“CANNOT BE BEAT 
IN WAUSHARA COUNTY” 
180 acres good sand loam adapted 'or 
potatoes, corn clover and rye, beautiful 
trout stream flowing through pasture 
land; about 20 acres timber. 
a 500 apple trees in their 
CllctI U primes, worth $2000. 
andHome BU e«XnT“ocatfo 3 o < ! 00 
Thisproperty is a money making bargain 
to someone who likes to handle apples. 
Price $45.00 per acre. 
APPLE FRUIT FARM 
Pine River, Wis, 
Cut out the old dead wood of 
the currants and thin out new 
shoots if they are thick. Leave 
no more than can have plenty of 
room to grow. 
