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Catherine Thomas was having her first
experience in raising broom-corn, she
needed advice & was told the best method
in drying & preparing it.

Haw many people have plenty of lima beans?
Catherine Janney had them to give away to
any one who wanted them, & also sold some.
Miss Mary Gilpin & Cousin Kate Thomas have
also had a good crop.

Is it too late to use hellebore on a rose
bush eaten up with slug? No, always
cut off the seed pods.

Rose Gilpin & Charles Brooke both had
apples they wished to know to what
variety they belonged.

How use nitrate of soda on a celery bed?
Sow it on the ground close to the plants &
work it in.

Alban Thomas thinks S.S. is "coming up",
for the [Brown?] garage seems to have
been designed by some foreign architect
from the banks of the Nile or elsewhere!

If you cut off holly hocks after they
are done blooming, it is said they
will bloom again - does any one know
about this? If you cut off old seed