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Cloverly

July 27th 1886 noon 90º

The society met for the first time at
Cloverly and found it looking very pretty
for such a new place, absent Riverside Norwood,
Willow Grove, Olney, Longwood, White
Hall and Sharon. Our guests were Mrs. Darlington
Richard and Edith Bentley, William
Lea and wife, Sarah Kirk, Rose H Hess
Elisha Miller and daughter Lillie and
Grace Miller, Edward and Mary Thomas
Deborah Reese and numerous lovely young
ladies aiding the hostess.

The exhibits were: from Rockland, flowers,
apples, pears, cymlings, corn, cabbage
carrots, parsnips, tomatoes, cucumbers, pease
beets and five kinds of beans; from Brooke
Grove, beets, potatoes, cymlings, corn, carrots,
parsnips, tomatoes, pease, 3 kinds of beans and
apricots; The Cedars, tomatoes & flowers
Alloway, flowers, Avalon, plums, tomatoes
and flowers. Stanmore, onions, carrots
cymlings and tomatoes. Edgewood apples
pears, Flowers. Rock Spring flowers.
Hermon apples, tomatoes and flowers.
The President thought the exhibit small
for this rich time of year.

The first readers, Sarah M. Hallowell
appointed Carrie Farquhar her deputy, who
read a spring article on "Hostess and Guest"
M B Magruder an article on Pond lillies