December, 1918 
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2. Hardy Fruits — Prof. N. E. Hansen, Brookings, S. I). 
3. The Women’s Auxiliary — Mrs. N. A. Rasmussen. 
4. Women in Agriculture — Mrs. W. A. Toole. 
5. Domesticating Our Native Wild Flowers — Win. Toole, Sr. 
6. Practical Rose Growing for the Amateur — Frederic W. Sparks. 
Thursday Evening 
Program to be announced later. 
Friday Forenoon, 9:00 A. M. 
Business Meeting 9 O’clock to 10 O’clock. President’s Address, Re- 
port of Secretary, Trial Orchard Committee, Delegates to 
Other Conventions and Election of Officers. 
1. Beekeeping In Its Relation to Horticulture — N. E. France, Pres. 
State Beekeepers Ass’n. 
2. Drug Plants — Prof. E. Kremers, University of Wisconsin. 
3. Progressive Strawberries at One Thousand Dollars an Acre — 
W. R. Williams. 
4. Insect Review for 1918 and What to Expect in 1919 — Prof IT F. 
Wilson. 
5. The Plant Disease Situation in the State — Prof. R. E. Vaughn. 
Friday Afternoon 2:00 O’clock 
1. Fruit Growing in Iowa — Prof. S. A. Beach, Ames, Iowa. 
2. Pruning — Prof. R. H. Roberts. 
3. How the Horticulturists Can Help in the Grain Rust ampaign — 
Dr. S. B. Fracker. 
larger cities of the state ar.d many 
smaller ones. While the primary 
thought is to aid in the continu- 
ance of the splendid garden work 
carried on in the cities in 1917 and 
1918, the papers and discussions 
will be of a nature to interest 
every one. So come prepared for 
the best and you surely will not 
be disappointed. Don’t forget to 
tell your friends that everybody 
is welcome, even those, who for 
reasons beyond our understand- 
ing, are not yet members. 
Peace With Victory. 
An armistice has been declared : 
peace will soon prevail. That be- 
ing the case Wisconsin Horticul- 
ture may now resume its former 
peaceful attitude. We have 
fought and licked the Hun and 
now we have only rabbits, bugs 
and such like to fight. 
Had the editor not known his 
readers he would have offered an 
apology for using space designed 
for the discussion of horticulture 
for war talk, but lie always knew 
no apology was necessary. 
There has been about the regu- 
lar number of lapses in member- 
ships, rather more than usual per- 
haps from the eastern and south- 
eastern part of the state and only 
three peremptory requests to stop 
the paper, one of them from Mil- 
waukee, since the November issue 
was mailed. 
Kindly comments and encourag- 
ing words have come from many 
sources. 
Now that peace will soon pre- 
vail the editor joins you in heart- 
felt rejoicing. The dead have not 
died in vain. Our boys who are 
over there are coming back and 
no soldiers ever returned from 
battle with greener laurels nor 
brighter shields. AVe know now 
what perhaps a few doubted, that 
America is safe, safe from dema- 
gogues and internal strife and we 
know also that the world is safe 
and we know that so long as the 
Stars and Stripes, shall float right 
shall be proclaimed as might and 
the “reign of law, based upon the 
consent of the governed and sus- 
tained by the organized opinion of 
mankind” shall forever prevail. 
Cut and burn the tops of all 
perennial plants. This will get 
rid of some of the borers and other 
insects that are apt to prey upon 
them. 
Well Paired 
Last month Mr. Boler offered 
the following purely horticultural, 
pertinent and timely conundrum : 
If the devil and William Hohen- 
zollern lived in the same tree, 
what kind of fruit would that tree 
produce? Although the editor so- 
licited solutions there were no 
takers. The answer is — a rotten 
pair (pear). 
Now laugh if you feel like it, 
but personally I consider it a gra- 
tuitous insult to the Devil. — F. G. 
Do not let dahlia or canna roots 
dry enough to shrivel. 
