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down? Try cutting off near the ground

10 Soap suds has been recommended for rose
bushes. It it gets on the foliage will it
injure it? Whale oil soap suds does
not. It would be well to try other kinds

11 How often cut sage? As often as it has
a good growth of leaves. Some advise
planting seed every [?] year and not
keep the roots a second year.
We find that several members have
already had peas, beets, onions & strawberries
from their gardens. At Cloverly
and Riverside, the earliest cherries had
ripened and were gone, taken by birds
Roger Farquhar brought a branch of
grape vine to show an insect pest
The secretary brought double white narcissus
roots for the members

The specimens were as follows
Avalon flowers & peas Riverdale flowers
Norwood peas, onions, beets, and potatoes and radishes
two weeks from the seed. & "100 leaf" Roses.
Longwood flowers, cabbage, corn, onions, beets
salsify, parsnips, peas, potatoes, radishes & beans
Brooke Grove onions, beets, peas, new potatoes, strawberries
and flowers
Rockland, egg-plant, cabbage, lettuce radishes,
onions, beets, peas, strawberries & flowers.
Cloverley strawberries, peas, beets, bean
Edgewood flowers. Fair Hill beets, immense radish
and flowers
Falling Green. Peas, beets, and potatoes.