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Harewood - July 7, 1953

Charming old "Harewood", with the Achesons as our
hosts, made the July meeting of the Society a most interesting
one as many of our members had childhood
memories of it when it was the post office and home of
their Uncle Edward Stabler. The garden was breathtakingly
beautiful with not a weed in sight - and the
swimming pool in its beautiful woodland setting made us
wish to linger there but as meetings must go on we all
gathered on the lawn in congenial groups for our supper
after which Jack Bentley called the meeting to order
and the June minutes were read and approved.

Francis Thomas read for Grace several gleanings
from "The Consumers Research", - one on the now popular
Food Freezer plan which they do not feel to be
economical and another about the miraculous? fertilizer,
RX15 which several members had sent for. They agreed
with the Federal Trade Commission that it should be
taken off the market. Francis also read some tips on
tomatoes - one, that it has been proved that the total
yeild is the same from the vines whether they are
staked or not - another tip was to remove side shoots
and thin the fruit to three in a cluster.

Ruth Havens read a chapter called "Midwinter
Madness" from a charming book by Beverly Nichols called
"Down the Garden Path". Mr. Nichols described what he
called "making the garden tour" and told of the joys of
giving detailed attention to each bush and shrub on his
tour of inspection. The author's determination one
dark cold winter day to have flowers in his garden in
winter, made him hunt through seed catalogues to find
plants that would grow in the winter. He made his
dream come true by planting winter aconite which made
a dazzling buttercup field in January, winter heather,
for pink bloom and heliotrophe, blue and fragrant along
with winter honeysuckle, jasmine and crocus. It made
us all make mental notes for our own winter gardens.

Jessie McReynolds read exerpts from a letter
from her son in California who told of raising ducks
to eat the snails that infested his lemon groves.

Rebecca Small gave her forethought report, telling
us to cut off bachelor buttons so they would continue
blooming; prune climbing roses, remove peony seed pods,
and set out broccoli and cabbage plants.