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WISCONSIN HORTICULTURE 
August, 1917 
An Attractive Home Means 
Contentment 
Keep the children at home by making 
them proud of it. The most effective 
and economical way to do this, is to 
beautify the lawn. Careful arrange- 
ment and good plants are essential. Our 
Landscape Department has specialized 
in this work, is familiar with Wiscon- 
sin conditions, and has probably the 
largest assortment of choice nursery 
stock in the state to select from. 
While Elm Nursery Co. 
Oconomowoe, Wisconsin 
The Kickapoo Valley 
Our Specialty: Planting and Developing orchards for non-residents. 
A fewchoice trees for sale. If interested, write us. 
THE KICKAPOO DEVELOPMENT COMPANY 
GAY MILLS, WISCONSIN 
20. Apple pickles. 
Quarter and core apples but do not 
peel. 
Make syrup of 3 lbs. sugar and 1 pint 
vinegar, 
Stick 2 cloves in each apple; 
Cook in syrup until tender. Seal. 
Apples may be sliced and use 1 qt. vin- 
egar to 2 cups brown sugar. 
21. Apple chutney. 
Pare and core 12 sour apples. 
3 onions, skinned. 
1 bunch celery. 
1 cup raisins; 
Chop all. 
Cook with 1 pint cider vinegar and 
juice of 2 lemons, 
Lj glass currant jelly, 
2 cups brown sugar, 
1 tblsp. salt, 
1 tblsp. ground ginger. 
After cooking one hour add bag of 
2 tblsp. mixed spices. 
Cook one hour longer and seal. 
22. Crabapple sweet pickles. 
8 lbs. fruit, 
4 lbs. sugar, 
1 qt. vinegar, 
1 level tblsp. each stick cinnamon and 
mace; 
Steam apples saving juice to add to 
syrup; 
Boil syrup until thick and pour over 
fruit. 
If it gets thin, in a few days boil again. 
23. Preserved crabapples. 
Take finest crabapples, rub with clean, 
dry flannel. 
Prick every apple with large needle 
to prevent bursting. 
To every lb. of fruit allow 1% lbs. re- 
fined loaf sugar and 1 pint water; 
Make a syrup and skim until clear. 
Put in the crabapples adding for each 
lb. the juice and grated rind of one 
large lemon; 
Simmer slowly until tender enough to 
prick with broom-straw, but do not 
allow them to break. 
24. Crabapple-orange conserve. 
6 cups oranges sliced thin and quar- 
tered, 
12 cups crabapples, sliced thin and 
quartered, 
2 cups water, 2 cups ^ugar; 
Cook in granite kettle; when thick 
add sugar, 
Cook until glassy. 
Farm for Sale 
With orchard that 
cannot be beat in 
Waushara County 
ISO acres ^ood sand loam 
adapted for potatoes, corn, clover 
and rye, beautiful trout stream 
flowing; through pasture land; 
about 150 acres timber. 
Hrrha rrl apple trees in tlieir 
Ulvll IU | )r i nie . 
and Unmo Buildings worth $.‘1000 
dill] Home excellent location 
This property is a money mak- 
ing bargain to someone who 
likes to handle apples. 
Price $4o.OO per acre. 
Appleton Fruit Farm 
Pine River, Wisconsin 
25. Apples with anise seed. 
Take small apples, cut out blossom 
end, slit peel from blossom to stem 
end 3 or 4 times; 
Wash and put them into jar with 1 cup 
water or wine and piece of butter, a 
little anise seed, cinnamon and lemon 
peel; 
Cover and allow to stew, shake a few 
times and at last put in sugar to 
taste. 
26. Sliced apple compot. 
To a medium sized panful of apples 
take 14 bottle white wine, 4 or 5 
tablsp. sugar, some lemon peel and 
cinnamon and cook slowly in covered 
dish until done; 
If wished, preserved quince or straw- 
berry juice may be added to the 
sauce. 
