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Some very early snap beans from Tanglewood, & one
large beet from Plainfield were all the vegetables displayed.
Can it be that from all the gardens
there represented these two were the only sample worthy
to be exhibited. If so it is rather a sad
commentary upon both HomeInt & Horticultural

After reading the minutes of last year,
the gentlemen went to look around. The ladies being compelled
by recent showers to do their inspecting by proxy.

The report we give at 2nd hand says that the garden
& all things else, are growing & prosperous, & a
tour made by all hands after tea to the big barn & dairy
would seem to corroborate the statement. From the
Piazza where we sat, we could admire the beautiful lawn
also an arbor vitai hedge, just started to exclude the
back views, & the stump arrangement for flowers

The thrifty row of cherry trees from house to fruke
was very interesting, & the thought suggested itself, "might
not others benefit themselves & the travelling [? ] as well,
by substituting along the roads & fences, fruit baring
trees, instead of cedars & other popular shade trees.

A call to supper was heeded with the usual
alacrity, & having given our undivided attention to
this interesting feature of the "H I", after a time we
again settled ourselves in the Ample porch to consider
the following questions & answers. An article on soap
contributed by M B Thomas, with the hope expressed, that
the subject might be decently & finally interred, was read.