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Falling Green
Sep 1st 1903

On Tuesday, the first day of September 1903, the Horticultrual Society met at Falling Green, the residence of Charles H. Brooke, with a good attendance of members and a number of guests. The President, Roger B Farquhar called to order but the secretary Elizabeth Iddings being absent a substitute for the day was appointed. The minutes of the last meeting were read and a slight alteration which was needed brought out quite a discussion upon the culture of asparagus, which had been a topic of interest at the last meeting. John C Bontley thinks it can be overfertilized.

The first reader Marian Farquhar interested in an article from the Philadelphia Ledger called "Home gardening". It advocated giving special care in summer to plants for winter blooming and quite discouraged much attention to sickly ones, thinking it better to give that time to keeping healthy