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WISCONSIN HORTICULTURE 
March, 1919 
Wisconsin horticulture 
Published Monthly by the 
Wisconsin State Horticultural Society 
12 N. Carroll St 
Official organ of the Society. 
FREDERIC CRANEFIELD, 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 application. 
Wisconsin State Horticultural Society 
Membership fee, fifty cents, which includes 
twenty-five cents subscription price of Wiscon- 
sin Horticulture. Remit 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 
F. Cranefield, Secretary Madison 
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 
X. A. Rasmussen Ex-Officio 
•J. A. Hays Ex-Officio 
F. Cranefield Ex-Officio 
1st Dist., A. Martini Lake Geneva 
2nd Dist., R. J. Coe Ft. Atkinson 
3rd Dist., E. L. Rolotf Madison 
4th Dist., A. Leidiger Milwaukee 
5th Dist., Jas. Livingstone Milwaukee 
6th Dist., J. W. Roe Manitowoc 
7th Dist., W T m. Toole, Sr Baraboo 
8th Dist., C. M. Seeker Tontah 
9th Dist., L. E. Birmingham Sturgeon Bay 
10th Dist., F. T. Brunk Eau Claire 
11th Dist., Irving Smith Ashland 
BOARD OF MANAGERS 
N. A. Rasmussen F. Cranefield 
J. A. Hays 
Victory Gardens 
As a reward for good behavior, 
no doubt, the State Council of De- 
fense, now dead, defunct, de- 
ceased, willed the “War Garden" 
work to this, Society. 
We want to hold as much as 
possible of last year’s gain, but 
we are making no patriotic appeal 
nor any “starving millions” ap- 
peal. We are appealing to the 
people of Wisconsin to help them- 
selves .by planting gardens again 
this jear and all the years to 
come. By doing this we will sure- 
ly help feed all who are less for- 
tunately situated than we are. 
We are to make gardens this 
year for the pleasure ami the prof- 
it to be derived from them and 
that ought to be enough. There 
will be no difficulty in getting gar- 
deners, practically every one who 
had a garden last year wants one 
this year, but not every lot owner 
who furnished land free to war 
gardeners is willing to do it, this 
year. 
The greatest difficulty lies in 
persuading the garden committees 
who served last year to act this 
year. In order to accomplish any- 
thing worth while there must be a 
central organization, a clearing- 
house, through which vacant lots 
may be listed and assigned to ap- 
plicants. Here is where our mem- 
bers who live in cities can help. 
Up to the end of February only 
fifteen cities of the fifty-six report- 
ing a city garden committee in 
1918 have reported an organiza- 
tion this year as follows: Wausau, 
La Crosse, Manitowoc, Marshfield, 
Monroe, Chippewa Falls, So. Mil- 
waukee, Bayfield, Washburn, Me- 
nomonie, West Allis, Beloit, Supe- 
rior, Kaukauna and Madison. 
Membei’s of this Society living 
in cities not named in this list are 
requested to take a hand in organ- 
izing a committee qnd report to 
this office. We have on hand a 
supply of the March Supplement, 
a manual on gardening, exactly 
fitted to Wisconsin conditions, and 
as many of these will be sent free 
as may be needed, but will be sent 
only to some committee or other 
body that will attend to a proper 
and economical distribution of 
them. Here is an opportunity for 
every member, living in a city not 
named above to help in promoting 
gardening. 
The American Apple Show 
Illinois apple growers held an 
apple show in Chicago last De- 
cember. Wisconsin was asked to 
joint but declined, as it did not 
appeal to us as a “ win-the-war ” 
measure. 
A meeting was held in Chicago 
Feb. 7th attended by representa- 
tives from twelve states and the 
American Apple Show Association 
organized. H. M. Dunlap, of Illi- 
nois, was elected president ; F. 
Cranefield, vice president, and 
Prof. Laurenz Greene, of Indi- 
ana, secretary. An executive com- 
mittee of five was also elected. 
An “all American” show will be 
held in Chicago, probably in No- 
vember and it is up to Wisconsin 
growers to make plans now to 
win. This will be our first real 
opportunity since the World’s 
Fair at St. Louis in 1904 to show 
Wisconsin apples at their best ; 
the state fair is too early and win- 
ter meeting too late. The pre- 
mium list will be printed in Wis- 
consin Horticulture as soon as an- 
nounced by the executive commit- 
tee. 
Boost a Little 
You can help your friend, you 
can, help the Society and indirect- 
ly every one concerned in horti- 
culture by securing a new mem- 
ber. Strange as it may seem to 
you, there are over a million peo- 
ple in Wisconsin who are not 
members and don't know of the 
advantages of membership. Nor 
do they know how simple and easy 
it is to acquire membership. Fur- 
ther many people who know some- 
thing about the Society consider 
it an organization composed most- 
ly of professional fruit growers, 
while in fact not over ten per cent 
are in that class, the remaining 
ninety per cent being amateurs. 
AVe have nearly three hundred 
members in Milwaukee and every 
one an enthusiastic gardener. So 
