August, 1919 
WISCONSIN HORTICULTURE 
169 
Class II 
Snap Beans, 1 lb. 
__ 2.00 
1.00 
.50 
Lima Beans, 1 lb. 
__ 2.00 
1.00 
.50 
Cranberry Beans 
2.00 
1.00 
.50 
. _ _ _ 2.00 
1.00 
.50 
Six Onions 
2.00 
1.00 
.50 
Six Ears Sweet Corn 
__ ___ 2.00 
1.00 
.50 
Three Cucumbers 
2.00 
1.00 
.50 
Three Muskmelons 
2.00 
1.00 
.50 
Six Tomatoes 
__ 2.00 
1.00 
.50 
Six Beets 
2.00 
1.00 
.50 
Six Carrots 
2.00 
1.00 
.50 
Two Egg Plant 
_ 2.00 
1.00 
.50 
Class III 
Best display vegetables grown by boy or girl under 16, in home 
or school garden. Twenty dollars divided pro rata. 
Best display vegetables from “home” garden by person over 16. 
Twenty dollars divided pro rata. 
Exhibitors in Class III may also show in Class II. 
bought up all the rooms in the 
house. 
The program for Tuesday and 
the premium lists appear elsewhere, 
the Wednesday program, which is 
wholly in the hands of Fort At- 
kinsonites, is said to include a visit 
to the C. C. and E. nursery in the 
forenoon and something else in the 
afternoon and evening. There is 
much whispering and committee 
talk about it but we, their guests, 
are not to know about it until we 
get there. Well as the late San- 
ders, he was usually late, would 
say “Oh very well !” 
Annuals 
Meaning flowers that can be 
grown from seed in one season. 
A strip about five feet wide and 
twenty long in the vegetable 
garden was set aside last spring fo’ 
annuals. About May 10th or later 
seeds of fifteen varieties were 
planted, the seed mostly two and 
three years old, broken packets 
saved from former plantings : As- 
ter. allysum, balsam, candytuft, 
marigold, petunia, snap-dragons. 
cornflower, portulaca, coreopsis, 
nasturtiums, poppy, zinnia, mig- 
nonette and kochia. 
Of these all but the aster were 
in full bloom July 10th. The 
snapdragon and petunia were 
only a few days behind greenhouse 
grown plants planted a little later, 
while the asters are more thrifty 
and the foliage of a better color 
than greenhouse stock. 
There are four rows with spots 
where seeds failed, filled with glad 
iolus and it will be a joy, if not for 
ever at least until November. Only 
one mistake was made, in planting 
so much of each kind. Six feqt 
of row of Alyssum is too much, two 
feet is enough while a similar 
shortening of many other kinds 
would have allowed room for fif- 
teen more varieties. 
About Tomatoes 
There are two ways about toma- 
toes and only two. Either you train 
them or you don’t train them. If 
you train them to a single stem you 
will need all of your spare time and 
much that is not spare time in or- 
der to make a good job of it. No 
one but the amateur who is short 
on land and very long on time 
should attempt it. 
What we started to say is this: 
If you have plenty of room and 
have set the plants four by four 
feet waste no time or material in 
racks or stakes or tying or pinching 
or any other foolishness. Just let 
them alone to sprawl as they will 
and you will have an abundance 
of fine fruit, five to ten times as 
much to the plant as compared with 
the single stem pole method and 
equally good in quality. 
Gone But Not Forgotten 
The striped beetle lias now done 
its duty for the present season and 
retired from the field of action 
leaving behind a crop of larvae in 
the stems and roots of vines as a 
souvenir. 
There would then seem to be 
nothing to be gained by continuing 
so painful a subject, except this; 
our college friends after careful in- 
vestigation conclude that simple 
methods, such as dusting are of no 
value and that our only hope lies 
in coating the leaves, inside and 
outside, with Bordeaux mixtuie. 
Enter the successful market gar- 
dener who absolutely controls the 
beetle by dusting with air slaked 
lime. How about it? Many grow- 
ers use tobacco dust combined with 
slaked lime. 
One subscriber reports complete 
success this year by following di 
rections in a little paragraph 
tucked away in a corner of Wis- 
consin Horticulture for May 1918. 
advising tlie use of slaked lime plus 
a small quantity of turpentine. 
It’s worth remembering for next 
year that the striped beetle is an 
able-bodied pest with a tremendous 
appetite but entertains a violent 
dislike for slaked lime. 
