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TANGLEWOOD,
June 3rd, 1930

The members of the Horticultural
met at Avalon on May 6th, 1930. Could this home
have spoken it might have told of the previous
meetings held in it during the sixty-seven years
since Rachel Gilpin, mother of our Hostess, became
one of the original members of this garden club.

Bessie Stabler read of the constructive
program for introducing the pleasures of
window gardening to the people of the Boston tenement
district which surrounds Lincoln House. It
promises to bring much beauty where little now
exists.

Lillie Stabler's article in House and
Garden called, "The Plants of our Grandmother's Day"
gave much information concerning the ancestors of
the flowers in our present gardens. "As far as variety
went," we were told, "the gardens of that time
were poor compared with the richness of those of
today, yet if one turns the pages of the books
written at that period it is obvious that the love
of flowers and the appreciation of gardens was as
wholesome then as now."

Corrie Brooke volunteered the reading
of an interesting account of boarding birds for obtaining
light on their habits and told of a pair of
cardinals taming themselves at Brooke Grove. Elza
Thomas told of a mysterious shower of dead birds in
Louisiana.

Anna Farquhar's first Forethought
was received with applause. She referred to the
long and highly appreciated service of Eliza Brooke
of Falling Green in the work. She gave various