Page 371

H/8/1902 -1-

Avalon
August 5^th 1902 87°

Meeting called to order at 4.30
Minutes read and after correction, approved.

Readers. 1^st Mary Magruder, "Out door
chrysanthemums." The florist to have
extremely large flowers, remove all the
flowerbuds except one to a stalk
Instead of this she proposes that
we try taking of all but twenty and
have much larger flowers than if all
grow, and tho' not so large as by
florists methods, they will be large
enough and plenty of them
2^nd Helen Thomas, "On Snowballs" an application
of sulphur for a disease or
of kerosene for something which makes
snowball bushes unhealthy, but suggests
replacing the common kind
with the Japanese variety which is
said to be finer.

Volunteer, Mahlon Kirk "on silk culture
in America, which is becoming an
important industry. The leaves of the
Osage orange leaves are found to be