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H/5/1937 -3- \3

Our president had called
that morning at Brooke Grove
on Charles F. Brooke on his 87th
birthday & in re-calling the many
years over which he had in
the past presided over our meeting
it was suggested that a message
of love & good wishes from
the Horticultural be sent him
through Robert H. Miller Jr.

Questions

Our hostess fears her new
magnolia grandiflora is not
healthy, but after it was inspected,
some thought it might
put out & better not be cut back yet.
In response to the question of
who raised gourds, it was found
a few had & we learned that
they could be allowed to hail
along on the ground & not necessarily
have something on which to
climb.

Mary Magruder wanted to
know what this gathering thought
of taking up the cherry trees along
the basin in Washington to make
room for the Jefferson Memorial.
The prevailing sentiment was