Club Minutes: Horticultural Society, 1950

Homestone, Oct. 1950 H/10/1930 - 1 -

The October and last meaning of the Horticulture Society met at "Homestone", October thierd.

The president called the meeting to orderand the minutes of the September meeting were read and approved.

Elza Thomas, one of the appointed readers read a section from " The Home Garden", on Garden Seats", which told how pleasant the garden could be by made with seats or benchesplaced at strategic places. An attractive view, a place of seclusion, or just a quiet place in which to shell peas may be the right location.Another article about gathering outdoor materials before frost for the making of a terrarium was interesting as we all have the opportunity to go the woods to gather moss and bits of decayed roots and barks and plants not on the conservation list.

A volunteer artivcle by Jesse McReynolds, "The Power Plant that Runs on Sunlight", was most informative as/it told how this plant is located at Yellow Springs Ohio at the HKettering Foundationa/and discussed how plants use sun shine to make chlorophl and how to use sunshine that is wasted. Atoms of iron lie at the roots at the plants and the sun brings it up. All plans need iron, chlorophl and sunlight.

Leon Small's good wife, Rebecca read his article as he was unable to be there in time. "Glauconite" proved to

be interesting to all members as it seems to be a Maryland discovery, being a soil deposit used for fertilizer found particularly in Calvert County,Md. It is a residue of marine life centuries ago and is worth more by the ton than gold costing thirty dollars a ton after it is mined. It is characterized by a greenish black loam found thirty to fifty feet under the ground. It is bagged and sokld to greenhouses as fertilizer and improves all plant growth. One tomato plant which thad beenfed with Glauconite grew to a height of fifteen feet.

Rebecca then switched roles and became the Committee on Forethough,t telling us that marigold and ageratum can be brought in the house for the winter. Work in slow fertilizer in the border, plant spinach and onions, start tulip planting and finished by reading the beautiful poem,October, by William Cullen Bryant.

Edward Iddings gave the meteorologist report for September: average temperature was 65 1/2; average rainfall6 2/10

The members had responded nobley to the suggestion of more exhibits and a splendid array was displayed. Flowers from"edgewood ", plums and other vegetables from "The Highlolands" , apples that loooked like pictures from th Hutton's orchard, and probably the one the members enjoyed most was the basket of grapes from "Homestone" as we hd them for our dessert.

The meeting was adjouned until next April when the members will meeting with Ulric and Rose Hutton.

The readers for that meeting are to be selected by the secretary.