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H/9/1949-1-

Fairfield. September 6, 1949.

Superlatives are dealt in positively only by those
who invite correction or criticism, and in the interest
of self defense your secretary pro-tem will therefore
open these minutes with a question: does any of our members
recall a more lovely gathering place or a more delightful
hospitality than we enjoyed at this meeting?

In the absence of Clarence B. Hurrey, Robert H. Miller,
Jr., presided.

The minutes of the previous meeting were read and
approved.

This age of specialization made itself felt in our
meeting, each of our appointed readers making an excellent
selection and then calling on another member to read the
article.

Edith Owings (the voice was Elizabeth Ligon's) gave
us "Compost is the Secret" by Richard Gordon McCloskey,
from July 1949 The Maryland Gardener. In this article by
a dirt gardener, the reader is urged to speed up and improve
on Nature's ordinary composting nethods by making the
compost heap of successive layers of green matter, earth,
manure, and sprinklings of lime, adding all animal matter
that is avallable, and using the heap as a place for deposting
the kitchen garbage.

If such a compost heap is built up to five feet, it
will in two or three months subside to some three feet,
and will then be usable. The pile should not be tamped,
but should be allowed to settle naturally; keep it damp,
but not soggy. If these things are done, the author
assures us of an odorless compost heap of great value.

Elizabeth Ligon, reading for herself, also gave us
an interesting account from the sate magazine, titled
"The Glorious Floribundas - Newest of Roses", Numerous
beautiful varieties were described, but perhaps it is in
order to quote only excerpts bearing on the general
qualities of these roses:-

"The floribundas were developed by crossing
types of small flowered polyanthus (a variety of primula) and
hybrid teas. The resulting plants inherityed... hardy type
of growth... constant blooming... cluster flowering...
extreme hardiness... strong resistance to disease and
insects... four or five to a dozen roses per cluster and
from five to ten clusters are in bloom on each plant from
start of blooming until stopped by hard frost".

Rebecca Small then read for Rose Hutton, who represented
absent appointed reader Ulric Hutton, George
Taloumis' article on bringing house plants in for the
winter, from September 1949 "Horticulture". This article
gives in detail the procedures which should be followed

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