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HICKORY RIDGE, JUNE 1951

The spacious hall of Jickory Ridge was the delightful
meeting place of the june meeting of the Horticultural Society.
The members were delighted with the graceful wind-
stairway and the lovely vista of the garden through the
doorway.

The meeting was called to order by the president and
the minutes were read and approved.

Helen Hallowel, the first reader, gave us an inter-
esting article from "Time" magazine on "The Vegetable Run",
--flying vegetables frown by water culture, hydrophocil'ly,
from Japan to Korea for the armed forces. Henry Blodgett,
hortculturist, is in charge of this project which ships
hundreds of thousands of pounds of fresh vegetables to
personel not only in Japan and Korea but to Guam and
Okinawa.

Another article telling of the many uses of Scotch
tape in the garden--- attaching vines ect. was read by
the same reader.

Robert Miller read from the "Better Homes and Gardens"
"The Most Abused Grass in the World", that in Yankee stadium.
Terrific compaction is what the soil suffss under baseball, football ect. and what your lawn suffers under scuffling kids, wheels and beating rain". We were advised
to loosen and airiate the soil and never to cut the grass
shorter than one and one-half inches.

Out forethought reporter told us that there was still
time to plant dahlias and to get in two more plantings
of "glads" ten days apart; mulch the ground around the rhododendren and to sow portculacca in hot exposed spots. Rebecca finished her report by reading John Burroughs
poem the "Crow".

Edward Iddings, the meoterologist, told us that there
had ben six and one quater inches of rain in May and that
the temperature averaged 62 and three-quaters degrees.

The society voted with pleasure on the admitting Jack
and Helen Bently to be members of the Horticultural and
requested the secretary to inform them.