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H/9/1898 -1-

Falling Green
Sept 6^th 1898
noon temperature 88° to 93°

The president spoke of the importance
of appreciating the beauties of nature
and the benefit to be derived from
an effort to enjoy them more each each
year that we live.

A very warm afternoon found
representatives from half the families
of the Horticultural, ready to begin the
meeting half and hour after our time
for beginning the business but various
others came during the proceedings.
The first reader, Mary B. Brooke, had asked
Minnie Pilling to read for her. She read extracts
from a pamphlet published by
the Agricultural Department concerning
poisonous plants. This proved interesting
and was considerably discussed. Wild
cherry was not thought of by most present
as poisonous to stock, but two
of the members had heard of its being
so in a half wilted state. Fresh
leaves and dry ones were not found to
be injurious.