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with salt. a row of mustard planted
around a cabbage bed will keep off snails
and slugs. Mrs John Hall stated the fact
that onions planted around watermelon
hills will keep off slugs &c. Hallie Lea
and Mary Magruder appointed readers
for next time.

Our specimen table was abundantly
covered: from Rockland, beets, potatoes,
peas, onions cymlings & three varieties of flowers
Falling Green, potatoes, peas, cymlings beets
onions & cucumbers; from Hermon potatoes
and tomatoes; from Norwood, cymlings
and beets; from White Hall, beets, onions, corn
in the ear, salsify, string beans, tomatoes
potatoes, grapes, Kohlrabi & mixed flow
-ers; from Longwood, cabbage, raspberries
beets, cauliflower, potatoes, apples, tomatoes,
and onions. Olney wax beans, beets, peas
cauliflower and flowers. Alloway toma
-toes cymlings, beets, potatoes, onions, cu-
-cumbers. Avalon flowers. Brooke Grove
Geraniums Mrs. Zack Waters egg plant
and flowers. Mrs. Hartshorne, geraniums

Questions

1 How long do strawberry beds bear and
what are the best berries? About 3 weeks
Wilson the earliest bearer, Kentucky the
latest; the Sharpless seemed a univer
-sal favorite. Mrs Hartshorne spoke of
the Mt. Vernon as all one could desire

2 Any remedy known that will make