WISCONSIN HORTICULTURE 
October, 1918 
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Wisconsin Horticulture 
Published Monthly by the 
Wisconsin State Horticultural Society 
12 N. Carroll St. 
Official organ of the Society. 
FREDERIC CRANE FIELD, Editor. 
Secretary W. S. H. S., Madison, Wis. 
Entered as second-class matter May 13, 1912, 
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OFFICERS 
S’. A. Rasmussen, President Oshkosh 
•J. A. Hays, Vice-President Gays Mills 
\\ A. Toole, Treasurer Baraboo 
F. Cranefield, Secretary Madison 
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 
N. A. Rasmussen Exofficio 
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. Roloff Mauison 
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 
loth Dist., F. T. Brunk Eau Claire 
nth Dist., J. F. Hauser Bayfield 
BOARD OF MANAGERS 
N. A. Rasmussen F. Cranefield 
W. A. Toole 
Horticulture at the 1918 State 
Fair. 
It is doubtful if any other state 
fair in the country afforded a fin- 
er exhibit in any department than 
that of the horticultural depart- 
ment at the Wisconsin fair this 
year. And this, in spite of handi- 
caps, the greatest of which is the 
squat, hox-like structure in which 
it was housed. 
The great merit of the exhibit 
was its finish. The flowers, fruits 
and vegetables were of high qual- 
ity and were arranged to best ad- 
vantage, but without the finishing 
touches these alone would have 
passed as but little more than ord- 
inary. The decoration of the 
building with southern smilax, 
ferns, palms and flowering plants 
supplemented by a fountain; the 
absence of fakirs, the hiding of 
rough edges and the entire ab- 
sence of any untidiness were the 
features that changed the horti- 
cultural display from a mere “ex- 
hibit'’ of the products of orchard 
and garden to the most attractive 
feature of the fair. Great credit 
is due the Milwaukee florists' 
club for suggesting and carrying 
out the plan of decorations. 
The tray idea of exhibiting 
apples, tried for the first time, 
was certainly highly successful, 
and never again will pecks of 
apples be shown huddled in heaps 
on fiat-top tables. 
The amateur flower show, one 
of the mainstays of the horticul- 
tural exhibit, was given a little 
more room this year than usual, 
and as a result increased 100 
per cent, in attractiveness. 
The cranberry growers, too, 
caught the spirit and their ex- 
hibit this year excelled in general 
appearance any previously shown, 
by a wide margin. 
The vegetable show was high in 
quality, but far from being repre- 
sentative of either the profession- 
al or amateur gardens of the state, 
but when it is considered that this 
is only the second year that vege- 
tables have been recognized at the 
fair as belonging to horticulture, 
allowances may be made. 
For the present we must be con- 
tent with this building, but when 
normal conditions arrive it is the 
duty not alone of every exhibitor 
and official but of every horticul- 
turist in the state to urge an ap- 
propriation for a new building, 
the biggest and ' best on the 
grounds. 
TELL THE KAISER. 
(J. C. Lionne in the Gulf Coast Lum- 
berman) : 
Germany wants to know what 
the United States is fighting for. 
She thinks the sinking of neu- 
tral ships, without warning isn’t 
enough to bring us in. 
All right! Let’s tell her! 
We’re going to fight for out- 
raged women ! 
We’re going to fight for cruci- 
fied nuns ! 
We’re going to fight for little 
children with hands and arms 
missing ! 
We’re going to fight for name- 
lessly mutilated soldiers ! 
We’re going to fight for inno- 
cent thousands strewn upon the 
bottom of the sea ! 
We’re going to fight for Bel- 
gium — outraged and desecrated as 
no nation in the previous history 
of the world has ever been! 
We’re going to fight for France 
—that magnificent nation of he- 
roes — bled with defending civili- 
zation against the Power of the 
Beast ! 
We’re going to fight for Eng- 
land — which chose the path of 
honor black-tinted with despair— 
when the little nation she had 
sworn to defend was set upon as 
by a wild beast ! 
We’re going to fight for Italy — 
which took up the cause of Eight 
against the power of Wrong — ter- 
rible though she knew the cost 
must be. 
We’re going to fight in defense 
of those principles of human lib- 
erty which were laid down nine- 
teen centuries ago by that first 
great teacher and preacher of hu- 
man rights — the Man of Galilee ! 
Every iota of the philosophy 
and creed of hate, and blood, and 
violence, and bestiality, and dia- 
bolic cruelty, and the human en- 
slavement that mark every foot- 
step of the kaiser and his cohorts 
of Hell — -are in direct and dam- 
nable opposition to every thought, 
word and deed of the Man of Gali- 
lee ! 
This is therefore no fight of de- 
mocracy against autocracy! 
