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who will be 92 on August 19. It is always a
pleasure to have her with us.

Questions ;
Carroll Brown has currants at Westown, Pa.
He does not spray much but cuts out old canes.
Petunias like it sunny and dry.
Carroll Brown raises grapes - 30 varieties
and bagged many. Last year an animal clawed them
over, left the greenones but ate the ripe ones.
it was possibly a coon or a possum. Ulric once
caught a coon under similar circumstances.

What are the first recorded gardens?
6000 B.C. in Egypt.

Lima beans, stringbeans and canteloupes
may be planted now.

Flora Goff tied many strips of aluminium
foil in the cherry tree to keep the birds out.

Sylvia Woodward was told to make cuttings
of her rose geranium as a remedy for a leggy plant.

Allow weeping begonias a little sun.

Humus will improve the grouns so that a
crust will not form - where a mulch cannot be used.

Francis Thomas reported on his magnolia tree.

We adjourned to meet at Gracelyn with Francis and
Grace Thomas in June. Elizabeth Canby and Walter
Wilson to be readers.