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Brooke Grove
May 5^th 1891 noon 42^o to 50^o
Assembled at the usual hour. The
absent were Longwood, Norwood, Riverton
White Hall. Our guests were Alice Taylor, Lizzie
Bond and Elizabeth Stabler.

The specimen were very fine: from Alloway
peonies and a fine cactus, lettuce
onions, pear vine 6 inches high and a tomato
plant: from the Cedars, flowers, beautiful
geraniums &c - and pink lilies and caladium
roots for distribution: from Avalon
two bouquets, one of them brilliant Nasturtiums;
from Fair Hill flowers: from Hermon
a cactus in bloom and a tomato plant
from Sharon Persian lilacs: from Rockland tomato
plants 8 in. high cabbage, lettuce, and
egg-plants. From Falling Green, pea vine
12 in high, bean plant, corn 5 in high, beet
squash and potato plants; from Rock Spring
pea vine 12 in high, potato plat 11 in. corn
6 in onions and asparagus: from Tanglewood,
flowers, tomato, beet, radish pea and
bean plants. Riverside flowers. Dahlia
tuberase and pink lily roots for distribution
Elizabeth Stabler brought specimens of fruit
from B. Gilpin Stabler's fruit farm in California.
Almonds, figs, nectarines, pears, peaches 8 apricots

Readers 1^st Corrie Brooke per Mr M. Miller read
how to raise melons; make the bed very rich