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WISCONSIN HORTICULTURE 
February, 1918 
Wisconsin horticulture 
Published Monthly by the 
Wisconsin State Horticultural Society 
12 N. Carroll St. 
Official organ of the Society. 
FREDERIC CRANE FI ELD. Editor 
Secretary W. S. H. S., Madison, Wis. 
Entered as second-class matter May 
13, 1912, at the postoffice at Madison, 
Wisconsin, under the Act of March 3 
1879. 
Advertising rates made known on ap- 
plication. 1 
Wisconsin State Horticultural Society 
Membership fee fifty cents, which in- 
cludes twenty-five cents subscription 
price of Wisconsin Horticulture. Re- 
mit fifty cents to Frederic Cranefield, 
Editor. Madison, Wis. 
Remit by Postal or Express Money 
Order. A dollar bill may be sent safely 
if wrapped or attached to a card, and 
pays for two years. Personal checks 
accepted. 
Postage stamps not accepted. 
OFFICERS. 
N. A. Rasmussen, President ... Oshkosh 
J. A. Hays, Vice-President .. Gays Mills 
W. A. Toole, Treasurer.. Baraboo 
F. Cranefield, Secretary Madison 
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. 
NT. A. Rasmussen Ex-officio 
J. A. Hays Ex-officio 
W. A. Toole Ex-officio 
F. Cranefield Ex-officio 
1st Dist., A. Martini Lake Geneva 
2nd Dist., R. J. Coe Ft. Atkinson 
3rd Dist,, E. L. Roioff Madison 
4th Dist., Henry Wilke ....Milwaukee 
5th Dist., Jas. Livingstone. .Milwaukee 
6th Dist., E. S. Bedell Manitowoc 
7th Dist., L. H. Palmer Baraboo 
8th Dist., M. O. Potter. . .Grand Rapids 
9th Dist., L. E. Birmingham 
Sturgeon Bay 
10th Dist., F. T. Brunk Eau Claire 
11th Dist., J. F. Hauser Bayfield 
BOARD OF MANAGERS. 
N. A. Rasmussen F. Cranefield 
W. A. Toole 
A Chance to Serve. 
Of the 1,600 members of the 
State Horticultural Society it is a 
fair guess that 1,000 are garden- 
ers ; some of them experts, but 
mostly just plain gardeners. Men 
and women who have “made gar- 
den” more or less for years. They 
know about how deep to plant 
seeds, that corn and peas may he 
planted two or three inches deep 
but beans and beets would never 
See daylight if planted more than 
an inch deep; they know how far 
apart to space cabbage and pars- 
nips; know that a “hill” of cu- 
cumbers or beans does not mean a 
little hill or elevation built up of 
earth and the seeds planted on 
the top or under it but mere- 
ly four or six or a dozen seeds 
grouped in one place and covered 
the proper depth instead of being- 
planted singly in rows; in brief, 
they have the garden sense. 
For these members there is now 
a splendid opportunity to serve, 
especially those who live in towns 
and cities. 
Your society, through its offic- 
ers, and in cooperation with the 
horticultural department of the 
University and the State Council 
of Defense, is heading the biggest 
garden driven ever undertaken in 
the state. Every available dollar of 
the Society’s funds that can pos- 
sibly be spared is being used to 
finance the work. 
Several publications, brief bul- 
letins on seeds, seed sowing, culti- 
vation, garden plans, transplant- 
ing etc., will be printed and furn- 
ished to the heads of the garden 
movement in cities, and in fifty 
or more cities speakers will 
be sent to give help to beginners. 
This comprises two kinds of help, 
the printed word and word of 
mouth. In both ways those who 
need help can get it, but all of it 
is acquired while the snow is still 
on the ground, or at least before 
the garden begins to grow. The 
time when the gardener needs 
help most is in midsummer and 
then is the time when our one 
thousand garneders can serve. We 
want to extend our Advisory 
Council to cover every city and 
village in the state. Do you want 
to do something to help win the 
war? Don’t miss this opportu- 
nity but write to the Secretary, 
State Horticultural Society, and 
offer your services. 
Don’t look on this as something 
trivial, a mere sentimental fancy 
of the editor, as events proved last 
year that Council members per- 
formed a very real service. Some, 
only a few, accepted the appoint- 
ment and immediately forgot all 
about it but nearly all meant what 
they said and went out into the 
highways and byways looking for 
a chance to serve. And all of 
them found an opportunity to 
serve. 
The ignorance and helplessness 
of the average beginner in garden- 
ing is vast and profound. You 
can help him over the rough 
places if you will. Invest in a 
postal card, address it as above 
across the back write, “Garden- 
ers’ Advisory Council: I Will” 
and sign your own name. 
A Printer’s Blunder 
The article, “Not Bit, But Ut- 
most,” beginning on page 71 of 
January Wisconsin Horticulture 
and concluded on page 76, was 
wretchedly marred by the print- 
er dropping a whole line of cap- 
ital letters from the bottom of 
the column on page 71. The leg- 
end on the banner carried by the 
munition workers read : ‘ ‘ DROP 
EVERY MORTAL THING AND 
SEND THEM PLENTY OF MU- 
NITIONS.” This makes sense; 
the maimed quotation as printed 
did not. 
Unless looked after carefully, 
jardinieres make good coffins for 
house plants. Plants must have 
air at their roots as well as tops 
and will not stand wet roots or 
soggy soil. Keep the soil sweet 
and clean as well as the room in 
which the plant is kept. Plants 
need fresh pure air as well as peo- 
ple. 
