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Olney

August 24th 1886

The meeting at Olney was remark
able for a very fine display of vegetables,
fruits and flowers. From Rockland
came potatoes, tomatoes, Lima beans
string beans, onions, beets, corn, parsnips
salsify, carrots, cymlings, cucumbers
cabbage, egg plant, apples and Flowers;
from Longwood, gourd, tomatoes, peppers,
cymlings, okra, salsify, parsnips, carrots,
beets, pears and Flowers; from
Rock Spring, cymlings, tomatoes, corn
beans, peppers, potatoes, cabbage and Grapes;
from Hermon, tomatoes, egg-plants cucumbers,
sweet potatoes, apples, peaches, pears,
and flowers; from The Cedars pears
and flowers; from Edgewood, potatoes
cabbage, cymlings, sweet potatoes, corn
tomatoes onions, 3 kinds of beans, pears,
plums, grapes, apples and crab apples;
from Willow Grove, flowers; from Avalon
parsnips, beets, cymlings, tomatoes, 2
kinds of beans, pears, apples and flowers; &
from Brooke Grove, cabbage beets
potatoes, cymlings, salsify, carrots, parsnips,
tomatoes, corn, beans and apples (seedling)

The absent members were from
Sharon, Riverside, Norwood, White
Hall and Cloverly. The guests were
Mr. and Mrs. Sherman, Miss Baker, Miss