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Rockland
June 5th, 1906

Meeting called to order at 4.30. The minutes read and adopted. The readers, 1st Anna F Brooke read from "Country life in America", Spring wild foods "Strawberry, grape, pine nuts or seeds, young cat-tails making a soup resembling Gumbo, certain grasses used as salad or cooked, lamb's quarter, prickly pear, Spring beauty, dog tooth violet - cammassion and numerous others.
2nd Ellen Fargnhar, some "dont's" for the garderner and advice to use small pots if you wish for blossoms- large if foliage
Volunteer; Prune early blooming shrubbery after it has bloomed, generally the pruning needed is to thin out old wood and make shapely. Dr. Kirk read of a new way of preserving fruit - immerse in "formal" and put in mason jars.
Forethought, advocates shallow cultivation in light ground: in claying soil deeper culture, She recommends the "Rival" garden plow; she believes very frequent hoeings hand pulling of weeds in the rows and