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Edgewood
September 3^re 1919.

August

When the Horticultureal day came around,
Aug. 5^th; we felt so sorry for our
hostess at Cloverley, and for ourselves, for it was
rainy & threatening in the morning & it
looked as if we were doomed, but nature
gave it a second thought, & decided she
must smile (as everyone does) for this
hostess, and by afternoonthe whole world
was [wreathed?] in sunshine, and the [little?]
[?] some [?] [penned?] - seems fitting.

August.

"The white lillies sway with the breeze
of the morning.
In raiment more fair than a monarch's
adorning;
The bright [?] humming bird, [marvel?]
of fleetness,
Comes questing for honey-blooms, draining
their sweetness-
For summer, the beautiful reigns."
--
We were called to order by our President-
& the reading of the minutes of last meeting