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FIELDHEAD July 4, 1961
Fieldhead could not have been lovelier when we met there
July 4th. The big magolia was in bloom; the roses, in their deep
protective mulch, were blooming very well indeed for July; and
the border around the rose garden was full of color and beauty,
We were over-awed with the vegetables that Rust raises. What a
display he had in his garden!
Our President wasabsent, -being in the play at Olney
Theater so Douglas Farquhar presided. He welcomed our new
members, Mary B. and Claire Hutton.
The average high temperature was 79½°, ave. low 60°;
highest was June 12-88°; lowest June 16 - 47°; ave. 69.7°. 76
is normal for June. 7.9 in. of rain fell,- almost twice the
usual fall.
Grace Thomas read the list of exhibits. (no record here).
The membership committe read a letter from Rebecca
Small saying that they regretted that they would have to resign
from the Horticultural. We realized that they would not have
taken the step if they had not decided that they must do itso it
was accepted with regret. The Sec'y was asked to write them. (she did)
Rose Hutton as a reader, read an account of their trip to
the west coast in the spring. They left the end of April on the
turnpike past Chicago, thru central Iowa's green and prosperous
farms, thru Nebraska, southern Wyoming, lovely Herber Valley,
to Utah, & Idaho. They took trips to Sun Valley and the Sawtooth
Mts. and to new dams near Hells Canyon then went west to Oregon,
and the Colombia River. In wash. they visited the Olympic Park, the the Holi(?) Rain Forest and Pacific coast. They returned
by Canadian Rockies, Lake Louise, Banff, Waterton Lakes; then
to Glazier Park in the U.S. and home. Things of special interest
were seagulls in Nebraska following farmers plowing; snow topped
mts.; lakes covered with ice; snow storms on mt.passes; and
evergreens covered with it; sunset on the Pacific; snow covered
peaks pink with the setting sun; a fresh salmon bought from
two lady fishmongers with elaborately curled hair does, then the
same salmon grilled out of doors; Indians still using hand hewn
canoes; Canadian wild animals- moose, elk, deer, bear, and wolf,
In Alberta the rolling green wheat fields, yellow dandelions,
with snow covered Rockies as a back drop; big lavender lilacs
singly and in hedges from Canada to Wisconsin; some of the
10,000 lakes thru Minn.one so large they could not see the
farther shore; beautiful elms from Minn. to Ind.;and large
patches of trilium along roadsides in Wisconsin; yellow headed,
white winged, and red winged blackbirds and their song from the
fence posts or reeds all along the roads thru the middle west.
After adjourment, Ulric Hutton showed pictures of this trip.
Questions: Chimpmunks have riddled the lawn at GrestEase.
Do they eat daffodil bulbs? dahlia roots, etc? Some thot that
they do. The Smiths know that they ate some holly cuttings.
They put gas from the exhuast (car) in the holes and got rid
of them. Rust Canby plants soy beans for quail and turns it
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