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WISCONSIN HORTICULTURE 
February, 1918 
We receive many requests for 
help from individuals and organi- 
zations acting independently and 
aim to supply all of them with the 
help asked for but much more ef- 
fective work can be done if all of 
the forces in each city working to- 
ward this common end, more gar- 
dens, are organized under a com- 
mon head. We can then commu- 
nicate with each city through this 
central organization and arrange 
dates for lectures at a lessened ex- 
pense and can more effectively dis- 
tribute literature, etc. 
Therefore, no applications for 
lectures and literature can be con- 
sidered from cities having no or- 
ganized war garden association 
until demands from organized 
cities have been met. 
Publications: Bulletins will be 
published from time to time giv- 
ing in compact form timely infor- 
mation on gardens and gardening 
written always for the beginner. 
The practiced gardener needs no 
help. 
Two of these are now in prepar- 
ation and will contain among 
other things lists of varieties best 
suited to small gardens and the 
quantity of seed of eacli necessary 
to plant a given area ; other ele- 
mentary facts concerning seeds 
and seed buying, and garden 
plans. 
This information has been fur- 
nished by expert gardeners, ama- 
teur and professional and can be 
relied on. 
Other circulars will follow on 
such subjects as : 
(2) Selection of garden site; 
soils, etc. 
(3) Plowing and spading; good 
and bad ; manures. 
(4) Garden plans; double crop- 
ping; succession crops. 
(5) How to sow seeds, depth, 
distance apart, etc. 
(6) Cultivation. 
(7) Watering; transplanting. 
(8) Insects. 
(9) Diseases. 
(10) Storing vegetables. 
These will be printed in quan- 
tities sufficient to supply every 
one who asks for them. 
We must, however, have some 
means of knowing approximately 
the number required and have a 
reasonable assurance that not 
more will be called for than will 
be used. To determine this will 
be the duty of the local organiza- 
tion. 
Inspection: In addition to the 
plan of local district aid suggest- 
ed in the city plan the State Hor- 
ticultural Society will this year 
extend the membership of the 
Gardeners Advisory Council to in- 
clude, if possible, every city in the 
state. This Council is composed 
of members of the society having 
garden knowledge who volunteer 
to answer questions personally or 
by telephone and when practical 
visit the gardens. This work was 
well received last year and gave 
excellent results. 
These are some of the things 
that the horticultural forces aim 
to do but in order to get best re- 
sults there must be local organi- 
zations through which they can 
work. Communicate Avith the Sec- 
retary of your County Council of 
Defense and urge immediate ac- 
tion. 
Oh, Happy Day! 
There has never been any lack 
of organization among the Door 
County fruit growers, rather there 
has been too much organization. 
Noav after ten years of hanging 
apart, all the cherry groAvers have 
arranged to hang together. The 
folloAving account from the Demo- 
crat of Sturgeon Bay, Jan. 4th, 
explains the situation. 
At a meeting last Saturday af- 
ternoon of the fruit growers of 
both the Door County Fruit Ex- 
change and Fruit GroAvers’ Asso- 
ciation, the Door County Fruit 
Growers’ Union Avas formed with 
a capital stock of $15,000. The 
business and purpose of the or- 
ganization will be to buy, sell, 
market and exchange, to hold for 
storage, and to dispose of all 
kinds of fruit and produce ; to 
deal at Avholesale and retail in an}' 
products and material used in the 
groAving, packing and shipping of 
all kinds of fruit and produce, to 
acquire and hold real estate and 
fruit lands, to construct and main- 
tain or to acquire and maintain, a 
canning factory for the canning of 
fruit, to do and perform any and 
all acts to promote the groAving of 
fruit and produce within Door 
county. 
The meeting Avas attended by 
fifty of the leading fruit groAvers 
of the county, and the constitution 
and by-laAvs of the neAv organiza- 
tion A\ r ere read and after being 
thoroughly discussed were adopt- 
ed unanimously. The company 
being capitalized for $15,000 it 
Avas necessary to have one-half of 
the stock subscribed, Avhich Avas 
secured at the meeting, the large 
groAvers taking the bulk of the 
.stock. 
The board of directors of the 
neAv organization Avill consist of 
nine members, the seA'en members 
on the old Union board, Avho so 
successfully conducted the busi- 
ness for the tAvo associations, 
were made members of the neAv 
board. The nine directors being 
as folloAA'S : 
H. W. Ullsperger, A. W. Law- 
rence, M. B. Goff for a term of 
three years; D. E. Bingham, J. G. 
Martin and W. S. Reynolds for a 
term of two years ; W. O. Brown, 
R. B. Cornish and Melvin Haines 
for a term of one year. 
A. W. LaAvrence Avas elected 
president, M. B. Goff vice-presi- 
dent, and Earl Johnson secretary 
and treasurer. 
An auditing committee consist- 
