Club Minutes: Horticultural Society, 1935

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Community House 2 July 1935

The July meeting of the Horticultural met at Community House with Albert & Lena Stabler as host and hostess. Meeting in what was formerly called the Lyceum brought back to some of us recollections of the exhibitions that used to be held there in late summer or early fall some half century or more ago, described by the neighborhood historian at that time as "an assemblage of a friendly crowd with the unequalled exhibition of flowers, fruits & vegetables, with no less aesthetic or triumps of culinary arts & needlework, called in fact the Horticultural Fair. But after the members began exhibiting more generally at the Rockville Fair, this was dropped.

Mary Stabler's article as an appointed reader, gave an interesting account of the

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Hanging Gardens of New York in the R.C.A. building, Rockefeller Center & when finalized may well be classed as the 8th wonder of the world, rivaling the ancient ones of Babylon. Those now completed represent those of several foreign countries as well as America & in their construction tons upon tons of earth works bricks, concrete & mortar & even 100 hits were [?] over the side of the building.

Mary also read of the New Dawn rose, advertised as an ever blooming [?] from the Dr. Van Fleet.

The other reader was unavoidably absent. A contributed article told of a Kansas farmer reported to be using hens to sprout watermelon seeds & perhaps brrody hens, if not needed for htching can be used for testing other seeds - corn for instance.

Our Forethought Committee suggested that she thought the time had come to

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drop this feature for our meetings there was now so many magazines & papers with timely articles on gardening (accessible 2 the members), but the general feeling expressed was that they we still needed his Forethought notes.

The Horticultural magazine was recommended as containing helpful articles & is published by the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, Boston, Mass. Price $1.00 a year & issued twice monthly.

The assistant secretary listed among the exhibits 8 pheasants just hatched that morning at Edgewood, & Andrew Adams brought some very handsome Hybrid Shasta Daisies, a cross between the wild daisy & a chrysanthemum from Japan, propagated by Lillian Burbank.

Questions & Answers Arsenate of lead with lime is good to kill beetles on nasturtiums.

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About the middle of July a good time to set out cabbage plants for winter use.

Hill white clover growing around a house keep flies away? No one knew.

Planting posts at intervals along the rows of raspberries & stringing wire on them to support the bushes has been found satisfactory by some.

A good support for peonies will be found in woven wire placed around them.

Do good berries bear every year. Some say not.

The subject of tree blights brought forth enlightening information, though we were sorry to learn of those attacking the oak & white pine but were glad to hear that as far as known, only one tree in Maryland had been found with the Dutch Elm tree disease & that was at the Ft. McHenry Baltimore & had been destroyed root & branch.

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Andrew Adams spoke of the necessity of funds being available for use in trying to control insect pest and the blights & that sufficient appropriations had not been made & felt that some pressure should be brought to bear to get the money. He was asked to find out what could be done and invite Dr. E.N. Cory state entomologist to come to our next meeting to tell us more about it.

We were reminded that for the supper meetings we meet about 4 P.M. & be called to order at 4.15.

Readers for next time Mary Magruder & Roberta Adams

As a good substitute for the hosts garden, we visited the most attractive one of Mr. & Mrs. Lindley Clarke's nearby.

Adjourned to meet next month at the Com. House, bringing our own picnic supplies.

Mariana S. Miller Secretary