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Fred Stabler approves of high ridges
for sweet potatoes, the red variety
do to use two weeks earlier - only
two or three should be planted in a
hill & there is no waste.

What is the proper time to gather
pumpkins? Do it before a heavy
frost - put on a porch & let the sun
shine on them, do not put on the
cellar floor, but up on a swinging
shelf to prevent rats from geting them.
Is it too late to plant holly hocks &
Sweet William seed? Not too late for
the former, but too late for the latter.
Katherine Janney brought plants of
Rocky Mountain Columbine for distribution.

Charles F. Kirk & Cornelia Beatty were
asked to read at the 1st meeting in
the spring.

We adjouned until April, the
place of meeting being decided by
the Committee.

It is well our host could provide us
with plenty of porch room, and a
spacious lawn, for your Sec. never
remembers seeing at any previous