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-isfactory? Yes

5 How cure sage? Cut before frost and
dry in the shade

6 Would it be well to manure and plow
a garden in the fall? Yes

7 How keep apples by burying them?
Make a trench 18 inches deep put straw
in the bottom then the apples, cover with
old bags, then straw, with 6 or 8 inches
of earth on top

8 How keep small rosebushes, if you
have no pit? Protect with Cedar boughs,
if very small cover with a glass jar

A way of keeping water
melons by varnishing was mentioned
It is said to preserve them in a per
-fect condition for months.

Margaret Magruder gave an example
of the longevity of some kinds of seeds
Fifteen years ago she had so pe-
-tunias in a certain place, which was
this season dug up, when some of
the same petunias came up and
bloomed; working the ground bro't
them to the proper point to germi-
-nate. A Letter to the Society from
Sarah B. Stabler was read and or
-dered to be recorded in the min-
utes. In the garden we found the
rosebushes looking well. Heliotropes
and Geraniums untouched by the
frost. The vegetable garden had