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a very good time.

Several persons complain of tomatoes
bursting before they ripen and some are
much troubled with mildew on rosebushes
Margaret Magruder had a clemates des
-troyed by a bug. Rachel Gilpin and
Roger Farquhar had the same expe
-rience. Rachel Gilpin kills them with
hot water in a basin into which they
are shaken.

The time for the Exhibition is
drawing near and our President
reminds us that we are to take every
thing that will decorate or add
interest in any way.

Our walk showed us a beautiful
flower garden still in full bloom
and a vegetable garden which had
supplied the summer vegetables and
still contained many things for winter.

Our society has been accused of
paying more attention to the cultivation
of flowers than vegetables but we think
it is an unjust accusation and that
it is proved to be so by the great
improvement in the vegetable gardens
of all our members.