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It was a great pleasure to vote into membership Edith and Henry Owings of "Hickory Ridge".
We accepted with deep regret the resignation of Camille and Clarke Slade whose kind invitation to meet at Sharon we declined.
The pros and cons of salton the asparagus bed were discussed historicallyand empirically by many of the present. Some have salted the bed (6 lbs. to 100 sq. ft. is a good proportion) and some have had good, relatively weedless asparagus for years without benefit of salt.
There is no doubt whatever, however, about the value of spraying arbor vitae now with arsenic of lead if there are more bagworms then can be handpicked.
Riverside decided after our profitable airing of the subject, to let the lawn sycamore tree remain, but not to add another.
Moles may be more plentiful as has been noted, because the ground was not frozen this winter as usual.
To prune lilacs cut out the old wood at the base of the shrub, and after flowering cut off the old blossoms. Forsythia blooms profusely the following season if cut down to two feet of the ground.
Donald Hobbs or Edgar Erwin will take down old trees if desired.
A surprising amount of interest was expressed over Ted Nesbitt's proposal that we visit the Dupont Longwood greenhouses this summer as a group.
Adjournment, and then came a covered dish supper fit for the gods.