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H/8/1868-1-

Riverside

The meeting of our Society the last of 8th mo was to
have been held at Longwood but owing to sickness in the
family we met agreeable to arrangement at Chas & E S
Iddings on the 12 of 9th mo.

There was a heavy storm
pending so but few took the walk around the garden
our host had decided with some others that working
with a hoe in a small garden did not pay where
the object was to raise plenty of vegetables for a large
family. he had long rows inside a field where a
horse and plow could do the heavy work. the early
vegetables had been used and second crops such as
Turnips, late cabbage occupied the ground. Tomatoes
were still very abundant. We saw the experiment
with asparagus and the doubt is removed. this
crop should be mulched with saw dust and
not cultivated during summer. the row showing the
most decided difference in favor of this plan.

There were not so many flowers as we found here
on our last visit but the grass and trees were most
beautiful and the vines over the house and porches.
if our hostess had not mentioned this we would not
have remarked a deficiency.

The book of the Secy
by mistake had been left so the usual reading had