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"Clermont" 4/4/1951-3- April 1951
The first meeting of the 1951 season of the Horticulture
Society met with Ulric and Rose Hutton in their delight-
ful new house of modern architure. The view from the
picture window in the kitchen almost made the female
members of the society envy Rose the job of washing
dishes.

The meeting was called to order by President McReynolds
and the minutes of the October meeting were read and
approved.

Lofton Wesley, the first reader, began his reading with
a quotation from a placque in the oldest garden in Saint
Augustine; "The kiss of the sun for pardon
The song of the birds for mirth
One is nearer God's heart in a garden
Than anywhere else on earth."
then read us his article, "I still Spray", from the April
Home Garden. this advocate of spraying says that he can
get bigger and better crops of vegetables, fruits and
flowers when he uses sprays and dusts than when he does
without them. In his observations of Nature in the raw,
he gives examples of a wild apple tree in the wood with it's
gnarled apples as compared with a sprayed trees whole
fruit; the chestnut tree preyed upon by the blight;
the Dutch elm disease; the army moth and the gypsy moth
which could be controlled with sprays, and does not feel
that he is outraging Nature when he uses a few pounds of