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Rock Spring noon 75°
Sept 8th 1905
The meeting was out of the usual date owing to the death of Caroline H. Miller, whose husband with Margaret Magruder started the idea of having a Horticultural Society.
The meeting was called to order near the appointed hour. The minutes were read and approved. owing to the Presiednts absence from the last meeting no readers had been appointed for this meeting.
Eliza Brooke gave a volunteer article sent by Edith Green "Flora's gayest month" mentioning all our brightest September flowers and speaking of the great improvement in Dahlias single and double and the great variety in colors and shades.
A. G. Thomas entertained us with some curios gathered in his travels. pressed specimens of Ragged Robin and barley from the field of Waterloo; a piece of yew tree under which Grey wrote his Elegy, near the William Penn cottage etc. etc.
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Sweet potatoes were discussed. Some think it very important to cut the vines off immediately if a frost comes and we are advised to dig them early [1 word underlined].
Forethought [1 word underlined]: Celery should have frequent hoeings and be hilled up a little after each hoeing. Sow lettuce seed the middle of the month. Boston & Iceberg, sow cabbage latter part of the month for wintering over. Cut sweet potato vines before frost and dig early, save plenty of sweet corn seed for your selves and friends, fight cabbage worms gather apples early. In flower garden put in bulbs, repot plants, sow pansy seed if is was not done in August
Poultry, Janet Miller absent. The general report for chickens was very good, for turkies not [1 word underlined] very good
Questions
1| Will it injure a Snow-ball bush to move it? If done in winter by digging a trench round it and moving when the ground is frozen to the place prepared for it it will not be hurt. dig the trench round it and prepare the place
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before freezing weather.
2| Do begoias require as much water as other plants? Yes, and good drainag
3| Will it be a good plan to sow pansy seed in a box for winter bloom? This question was not anwered. Once member said the finest pansies she ever saw were sown in the ground in the fall and covered with brush.
A member planted celery with sweet corn which shaded it . Every plant grew when the corn was cut fine manure was put about it.
Will celery gradually having five inches above ground each time.
There was considerable complaint of blight in canteloupe and some other vines. The Secretary was requested to write to the Agricultural College for information as to cause and cure (Secretary remiss E.S.I.)
some failures in raising egg-plants were reported; at some places they were very fine we were told of a lady who always has fine crops and plants them in the same bed every year. the bed is in the shade
A member complained ther her Bartlet pears rotted. Advised to keep in
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a dry place, never in a cellar
Work celery until October and hill If tall put in a ditch and cover or put in moist sand in a cellar
A member has an apricot tree 24 yrs. old. It has its first crop of fruit two apricots! shall she dig it up? Advised to leave it awhile longer
What do with peach Stealers? No answer
How start cutting of Ivy? Start in water
Ivy used for winter decorations for mantles and pictures will be found nicely rooted by spring; the bottles must be looked at once in a while and water added as it evaporates.
A friend of A. G. Thomas who travels is to settle the question for him whether bean vines climb around the poles in the same direction North as South of the Equator
R. B. Farquhar has found San Jose scale on some of his trees. He was advised to have those badly infected cut down and the others sprayed with Salt, lime and sulphur.
Our inspection of gardens was satisfactory. The flower garden
