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Brooke Grove celery, parsnips carrot
parsnipes squash, cucumber tomatoes and
three displays of flowers.

Fair Hill flowers and cabbage
Rockland flowers, Lima beans, wax
beans, knife beans, 24 inches long, tomatoes
turnips, cabbage 11 inches in diameter
salsify, pepper, carrot, okra, onions,
squash corn, sweet potatoes and white potatoes
Rock Spring, Lima beas & cucumber

1^st reader Warwick P. Miller read
an article comparing the life and business
of the farmer, with merchant and
others, which went to prove the superiority
of farming as a business and in
promoting longevity. 2^nd reader Ellen
Farquhar, on the culture of the Chinese
sacred lily or [p?]ass flower a variety
of Narcissus a volunteer article on
the culture of bulbs &c contributed
by Francis Stabler, was read.

The readers for next meeting. Dr
Green and Alice T. Stabler

Questions
1^st Is it time to hill up celery? Yes

2 What time dig sweet potatoes? Before
frost. One grower says, if one leaf
is frosted it injures the pototoes.

3 What do with a bulb bed, overgrown
with weeds and grass? Get them out
After the tops die down, the roots
bulbs will not be hurt by shallow hoeing