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H/4/1881 -1-

Long
wood
April 5th
1881
noon Temperature 29 degrees

This First meeting for 1881 was
held at Longwood on the 5th of April. It was
a large meeting not withstanding the very cold day
The mercury standing at 29 degrees at some places and
a high wind blowing. Only one family failed to
attend, that from "White Hall. Our guests were Mr.
Nesbit, Mrs. Parkland, Richard and Edith Bently,
James and Margaret Hallowell, John M. Smith, Dr.
Martin, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Waters and Kate Janney
The Specimens were some Ful
fond a basket of lettuce, Brooke Grove parsnips,
Rockland tomato plants cabbage and lettuce
Daniel Gaithers, potatoes and lettuce, Kate
Janney lettuce, and a plate of Pansies and
fine Geraniums, Alloway Avalon Sharon
and Fulford flowers grown in doors
and from Riverside a few from the garden.

Our President was very much pleased with
the full attendance , and thinks it shows
that notwithstandling the number of years
our society has existed, our interest in it is
still on the increase. His questions as to
the results of our winter's experience elicited
the facts that the so unusually cold
winter, vegetables kept well and