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Hermon
August 8^th 1888

A large company of members and guests
asembled at the usual hour. The heat was intense
and we hurried to the garden and got
through looking at the beautiful and thrifty
patches, the beautiful young peach orchard, fine
pear tress, long rows of sunflowers, the seeds
of which are for the chickens, when the storm
which had been theatening, drove us into the
house. The clouds made the room so dark
the minutes had to be read by lamplight
The absent members were those from Olney,
Longwood, Falling Green, Alloway and White Hall
Our guests were Mary W. Kirk Sarah Kirk Mrs.
Hattie Riddle Davis, Miss Alice Riddle, Jamie Smith
Pattie Farquhar Dora Moore, Miss Kate Bradley
Miss Ethel Stuart and honorary members
Edward and Deborah Lea.

1^st Reader Mary Magruder read " Gardening
then and now" giving various changes made
in modes of gardening , and advocates using,
sand in the earth for potting plants instead
of potsherds for drainage.

2^nd Reader Eliza Moore got John Bentley to
read in her place a recipe for killing curculio. 1/2 lb
London purple to 5 gals. water applied soon after
the fruit forms. Ellen Farquhar read an article
on Lily culture, showing that those which are natives