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Mt. Airy. June 7^th
1938
On June 7^ththe Horticultural met
at Mt. Airy with a very full attendance,
"Innercauld" being the
only place with-out a representative.
After adoption of minutes of the
last meeting, Mary Tilton as 1st reader
described in part the experiences of
two young people who inherited a
piece of property, and their re-action
to the process of filling some of
the trees standing on it made a
pleasant reading.

Elza Thomas read for Fred, of
the many varieties of maple trees
in this country and the characteristics
of some such as the sugar maple
being good for street planting; Norway
maple has fine folliage but is short
lived. Red-soft or swamp maple bright
foliage in the fall. The manstola
maple or box elder is not supposed
to be desirable, but for a quick grower
to get shade it is of some use.
An interesting contributed article
by Cornelia Bentley told of
the Gingo tree that scientists find
has been in this country 150 000 000
years, having been imported from
China. The leaves were originally wedge