Club Minutes: Horticultural Society, 1891-1906

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chickens is to establish a spot for a cemetery!

2nd reader Emily Massey an article on raising shrubs. Treat them like guests and give them what they like best. Volunteer Peaches brought from South Africa which are of good quality and sell for .60 cnt each. It takes four weeks to get them here. 2nd The discovery of a plant in Colorado and adjacent states which yields a fine rubber. Said to be millions of acres

Forethought Do not crowd tomato plants. 4 ft x 4 ft near enough: make the ground rich and mulch. Eggplants treat the same way, melons are of better quality if planted early. 1st week in May: fight striped bug. It is said mothballs will drive them away. In flower garden, give rose bush bone dust and mulch.

In a discussion of the remedies for striped bug it was said they like mothballs! Dr. Magruder covers the plant with cheese cloth over wire bows or willow withs; another remedy is gashouse lime, which is said keep them off.

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Poultry Janet Miller absent John Bentley gave a recipe for the best food for young chickens. C 6 parts whole wheat 6 " corn meal 10 " millet seed 1 " wheat bran 1 1/2 " beef scraps

Report of Executive committee to be prepared for next meeting

Questions

1. Will it injure narcissus to cut the leaves off now? Thought not

2. Can tomato ground be made too rich? Yes, the plants will go too much to vine and leaves; a little compost or nitrate of soda good. Some say five feet apart is better than four by four.

3. Wanted suggestions for plants for porch boxes? If shady begonias. Nasturtiums very satisfactory

4. How hasten the growth of rhubarb? Put a barrel without top or bottom over it. This also makes it tender.

5. What do to apple trees, which have scale?

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Too late to spray now, wait till the leaves fall 6 . How move box bushes ? Take up with a large ball of earth Ellen Farquhar offers Kudzu vines to any who want them.

Hannah Stabler brought excellent sweet corn seed for distribution.

We visited the new chicken house with its numerous motherless chicks

The gardens were in order and many seeds planted.

Readers Ellen Farquhar Anna Brooke

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Rockland June 5th, 1906

Meeting called to order at 4.30. The minutes read and adopted. The readers, 1st Anna F Brooke read from "Country life in America", Spring wild foods "Strawberry, grape, pine nuts or seeds, young cat-tails making a soup resembling Gumbo, certain grasses used as salad or cooked, lamb's quarter, prickly pear, Spring beauty, dog tooth violet - cammassion and numerous others. 2nd Ellen Fargnhar, some "dont's" for the garderner and advice to use small pots if you wish for blossoms- large if foliage Volunteer; Prune early blooming shrubbery after it has bloomed, generally the pruning needed is to thin out old wood and make shapely. Dr. Kirk read of a new way of preserving fruit - immerse in "formal" and put in mason jars. Forethought, advocates shallow cultivation in light ground: in claying soil deeper culture, She recommends the "Rival" garden plow; she believes very frequent hoeings hand pulling of weeds in the rows and

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shallow working between the rows and says in her opinion recropping the ground is not more exhausting to the soil than is a crop of weeds

Meteorologist had no report

Poultry: Janet Miller absent

Avalon 155 chickens Brooke Grove 600 " 15 ducks Cedar Lawn 150 " Cloverlea 150 " 6 gos. Edgewood 220 " Fair Hill 419 " 47 turk. 20 d. Hermon 400 " Highland 225 " Riverside 200 " Rockland 294 " 41 " Rock Spring 150 " 47 " 5 gos. 6 d. Woodburn 1050 " 18 " 17 " 13 d.

The exhibits were very fine in spite of our recent killing frost and flowers beautiful and abundant.

Questions

1. Is it too late to plant peas? Yes

2. What proportion of helebore to a gallon of water for slugs? 2 table spoons; have the water boiling

3. What the best fertilizer for a new