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Falling Green
May 5, 1925.

April seventh was a beautiful spring
day, and a goodly number of horticulturalists,
and most of the residents of Ashton, and
several other guests gathered at Invercauld
for the first 1925 meeting of the Horticultural.
It also was the first meeting of our society
held at Invercauld since its removal to
Ashton. The house seems to have wonderful
stretching qualities, as the large number
of people were very comfortably accommodated.

All officers there present, and Norwood,
and Londonderry the only places not represented.
The minutes were read and adopted, then the
by-laws were read.

Mrs. Nichols was the first reader. She read
a poem of Edgar Guest's "Rhododendrun." [Rhododendron] The author
says he has planted Rhodendrens, but they never
flourish, now having been to their naive land,
North Carolina, he understands they are homesick
for their Mountains.

Cousin Anne was remindd by this, of an
article in the Garden Magazine, by the Editor,
who says the reason most people fail with
sweet-pease [sweet peas] in this part of the country is that