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H/10/1883 -1-

Norwood

Oct. 2nd 1883 noon Tem 64°

Assembled at the usual time
the families from Longwood Alloway
and Fulford were absent. The guests
were Richard and Edith Bentley, William
More and wife and Carrie Brooke.

The specimens were from Avalon
quinces, sweet potatoes and flowers; from
Hermon pears, apples, peaches, and flowers;
from Sharon, pears and flowers; from
Riverside, pears, Lima beans, tomatoes and flowers;
Rockland, cabbage turnips, tomatoes, okra pep
-per, 2 kinds of beans, egg-plant & flowers
Falling Green cucumbers, lettuce and flowers; from
Brooke Grove flowers, from White Hall peaches
pears apples 5 kinds of grapes, 3 kinds of
sweet potatoes, 3 kinds cabbage, sweet corn
Lima beans, tomatoes and flowers.

W. H. Farquhar brought peppers and the very
curious "dish-cloth" Gourd. Edith Bentley
brought winter radishes and Carrie Brooke
brought very fine peaches celery and flowers

After reading the minutes, the
Horticultural Exhibition was reported
a success in spite of most untoward
circumstances. The cost to each family
was .40 cents, which was paid

The readers for the evening