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Rock Spring

June 6th 1876

We met at Rock Spring, the home
of Roger and Carrie Farquhar. Our absent
members were those from Alloway and Edge
wood, and our guests were, Carrie Brooke
Charlie Annie and Eliza Brooke of Falling
Green. Our specimens both in quantity
and quality have never been surpassed
and not very often equalled. From
White Hall were pease and an elegant
of Roses. From Avalon came very strawberries.
From Springdale potatoes corn 1 1/2 feet high
Brigg's Extra Early, beets, and Strawberries
a very large and well-flavored berry
called "The monarch of the West" and
flowers. From Fulford a bouquet; from
Riverside flowers and two kinds straw
-berries, Kentucky and Wilson; from Hermon
Roses; from Rockland beets strawberries
gooseberries cherries and pease; from
Olney beets onions peas beans and
flowers; from Brooke Grove pease, cucum
-bers, the Early Russian variety (which they
had been using for three weeks) straw
-berries, President Wilder, very fine, elegant
Roses, and some parsley plants for dis-
-tribution. From Sharon flowers from
Longwood strawberries peas and
an elegant display of Roses and
other flowers. The mantlepiece and