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WISCONSIN HORTICULTURE 
July, 1918 
Wisconsin Horticulture 
Published Monthly by the 
Wisconsin State Horticultural Society 
12 N. Carroll St. 
Official organ of the Society. 
FREDERIC CRANEFIELD, Editor. 
Secretary YV. S. H. S'., Madison, YVis. 
Entered as second-class matter May 13, 1912, 
at tile postoffice at Madison, Wisconsin, under 
the Act of March 3, 1879. 
Advertising rates made known on application. 
Wisconsin State Horticultural Society 
Membership fees fifty cents, which includes 
twenty-five cents subscription price of Wiscon- 
sin Horticulture. Remit fifty cents to Frederic 
Cranefleld, Editor, Madison. Wis. 
Remit by Postal or Express Money Order. 
A doHar 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. Cranefleld, Secretary Madison 
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 
N. A. Rasmussen Exofficio 
J. A. Hays Ex-Officio 
W. A. Toole. Ex-Officio 
F. Cranefleld Ex-Officio 
1st Dist., A. Martini Lake Geneva 
2nd Dist., R. J. Coe Ft. Atkinson 
3rd Dist., E. L. RolofT Madison 
4th Dist., Henry Wilke Milwaukee 
5th Dist., Jas. Livingstone Milwaukee 
6th Dist., E. S. Bedell Manitowoc 
ith Dist., L. H. Palmer Baraboo 
8th Dist., M. O. Potter Grand Rapids 
9th Dist., L. E. Birmingham Sturgeon Bay 
inth Dist., F. T. Brunk Fail Claire 
11th Dist., J. F. Hauser Bayfield 
BOARD OF MANAGERS 
N. A. Rasmussen F. Cranefleld 
W. A. Toole 
“Lafayette, we are here!” 
— Pershing. 
“America is GocTs last chance 
to save the world.” 
■ — Emerson. 
“Extravagance costs blood, the 
blood of heroes. ” — Lloyd George. 
Hit hard and quickly for all we 
have and are and hope to be ! 
The Summer Meeting. 
The Summer meeting of the 
State Horticultural Society will be 
held in Baraboo Wednesday and 
Thursday, August 21st and 22nd. 
One day, the first, will be devot- 
ed to papers and talks on subjects 
of present day interest and one to 
visiting gardens and orchards in 
the vicinity, including the Toole 
pansy farm and our trial orchard 
on the Ski-IIi fruit farm. 
The summer meeting is wel 1 
worth while. Our sessions in years 
past were not all that could be 
desired either from point of attend- 
ance or interest hut that sort of 
thing has passed. The summer 
meetings of late years have been 
very profitable and interesting 
and the attendance excellent. 
It will he so this year or even 
better for the horticulturists realize 
their responsibilities in the war and 
want to faee them. 
Baraboo is called t lie Gem City 
and is Yvell named. 
Baraboo people make no claim 
that their city is a metropolis, nor 
desire that it should be such. It is 
truly a little gem, set among the 
hills with wide, shady streets, a 
clean and comfortable looking city. 
The people of Baraboo are not 
boastful nor filled with false pride 
but there is always a warm wel- 
come to strangers. 
There is a calm dignity about 
Baraboo that attracts. The pro- 
gram will follow closely the lines 
of that of last year as it is fitting 
it should. It will lie a war pro- 
gram with emphasis on conserva- 
tion of fruit and vegetables. 
The following topics will be dis- 
cussed : 
Harvesting and Storing Vege- 
tables, Storing Apples, Cider Mak- 
ing, Drying and Canning Apples; 
Homemade Syrups and other top- 
ics pertaining to the saving the 
fruit crop. The beauty of our 
home surroundings will not be 
overlooked nor forgotten. The 
raising of flowers is now more im- 
portant than ever and we will talk 
about that, too. 
The evening session will be an- 
nounced later. 
The complete program will ap- 
pear in the August number but do 
not Wait for that. Decide now to 
attend. 
State Protects War Gardens. 
The supreme judicial court of 
Massachusetts held, in the case of 
Commonwealth vs. Gallata, that 
where a landlord terminated a 
tenancy at will of city lots, the 
tenant was entitled to growing 
crops as against the landlord and a 
subsequent lessee with knoYvledge 
of the first tenancy. 
The court said: “The general 
principle is that where a person is 
in possession of land under a title 
that may be determined by an un- 
certain event not within his con- 
trol, it is essential to the interest 
of agriculture that such a termina- 
tion of his lease shall not prevent 
him reaping what he has sown and 
we see no reason why a tenant 
should be denied the right to 
emblements by the act of the 
landlord where the crop is raised 
on a city lot rather than on a 
farm.” Emblements: The growing 
crop or vegetable growth, or profits 
of a crop, which has been sown or 
planted. (Definition.) 
Prune spiraea bushes as soon as 
they are through flowering. Re- 
move all old wood and thin the 
new growth Spade around the 
plants and fertilize them well. 
Better flowers will result next 
year. 
