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Our second reader Bea Hutton read from old minutes
a poem written by Sara Farquhar Henry C. Hallowell gad's grandfather in 1888 to
commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Horticulture
held at Brook Grove in that year. This poem reviewed
the founding of the society, outlined what it
had meant to the early members and included a personal
tribute to each member who had died between the founding
date and the 1888 meeting. As we listened in this
100d anniversary year,
to the perceptive and delightfully vivid word pictures
of each of these members we caught not only the feeling
of sadness and loss that the 1888 meeting must have
experienced, but we were privileged to glimpse a
brief image of the personalities of these early members
whose contribution and spirit went into early Horticulture.

Sylvia's advice was timely and much appreciated after
her absences; After reading an item about an early
cutting machine she advised on current garden needs.
Cut old F orsythia canes; feed daffodils and tulips;
do not more until foliage is yellow; Spray dogwoods
now 5-10 per cent DDT Support peonies and babies' [?]
when it is 12 inches tall. Pick your pansies; Slip
chrysthanthemums; pick weeds.

Douglas's weather report is attached. Rainfall was 1.32
inches in April. Temperature ranged from a high 84 on Apr
April 2, to a low 32 on April 8 and 10.

The exhibit report also attached; Plants, blooms
or vegetables were brought in by seven families.

The Secretary asked Sylv ia to show slides and
discuss her recent trip, and Mary Moore to
read old minutes. Mary Moore released her time to
Sylvia.

The President asked that anyone with ideas on
how to celebrate the centrnial to write the secretary.
Then he cavassed the membership for ideas and the
following ideas were thrown out for consideration
of the committee.