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H/7/1905 -1-

Brooke Grove
July 4th 1905

A pleasant company of members and
interested guests assembled. The minutes
were read and accepted. The readers
1st Anna Nesbit was absent but sent an
instructive article on the culture of asparagus,
showing how, in one case it became
a "mortgage lifter". After digging
trenches three feet deep, put in a good
drainage of stones then a foot of well-rotted
manure, then well pulverized earth
to six inches from top, the seeds were
sown and well pressed; as the plants earth
was filled in until the trench was
even with the surrounding ground and
the plants thinned to eighteen inches
apart. The second year a limited
quantity was cut and the third
year there was a big crop. This
grower prefers seeds to two year old
plants which are often mutilated in
transplanting and have to get used
to new soil and location. 2nd Reader
Hannah Stabler (by her daughter Lily