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brought an article upon rasing Geraniums
for winter blooming which advocated
planting slips in April and
setting the plants so formed in the open
ground about May 20th, Then by
keeping the buds pinched off until
September and potting near the 15th
bloom by Christmas and on through
The winter is seasonally certain. Are
other short paragraph gave a remedy
for worms around pot plants, a
tea made of horse chestnut leaves
The Forethought report gave much
valuable inforamtion, anticipated many
of the questions and aroused and an animated
dixcussion as to late planting
of corn. A number thought well to
plant up to the 16th of the month and
one member had me with success
from a planting on the 24th.
Edith Hallowell being absent,
there was no official weather report
but the noon temperature was given,
82 °, and Dr. Kirk supplied the following
data. Tehre were only 6 clear days
in june and the rainfall for
that month was 4 inches above the