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H/8/1965-2-
8-3-1965
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totalling 2.28 inches or 22.51 inches for the year to date, well
below the normal total. Highest temperature of of 90o occurred twice,
on the 9th and the 25th, making an average high of 83o. The low
of 52o was on the 21st, making an average low of 64o and the mean temperature for the month was 73o.
Our Assistant Secretary, Grace Thomas read the list of exhibits.
From Mount Pleasant came the "abundance" of Plums and Helen Bentley
brought assorted Zinnias. Douglas and Helen Farquhar brought blackberries,
corn, 3 kinds of squash, 3 kinds of lettuce, apples, pears,
parsley, tomatoes, cocktail tomatoes, okra, lima beans, string beans
and cucumbers. Alan Thomas brought 4 kinds of tomatoes, Belgian
Giant, Porter, Rutgers and B-96, and some blackeyed Peas, Pete and
Betty Ligon had 4 kinds of Dahlias, Zinnias, 2 Gladiolas, One
Hemerocallis and two other kinds of Lillies.
Our feathered friends seem to be very active: Helen Bentley reported
seeing humming birds around Jack's picture window. Flora's
bluebirds raised two families here and see has seen swallows in the
corn. Betty Ligon counted three families of wrens in succession out
of one nest, but Ulric Hutton saw a snake in a wren nest, presumably
feasting on them. Helen Bentley said that one of her wren houses
was too small after the nest was built inside so the wrens couldn't
get out and died.
Lucy Manning passed around a copy of the News Letter of the
Interstate Commission on the Potomac River Basin, saying that we
were still on the mailing list, thru the Secretary.
Questions: Flora Goff wanted to know if detergent water was
injurious to plants? Some said yes and some said no, but most of
us thought that a counteraction in the soil was needed. Also, one
of her three Maples has the "Bunch" disease of little suckers; what
does it need to eliminate this? Call the Department of Agriculture
about this blight.
Harry Goff asked what is the life span of a Mimosa? Consensus
was about 20 years, even with one or more trunks. The Mannings
have one now between 15 and 20 years old.
Wendy Lawrence: Does wild Monkshood grow here? Yes and Edward
Iddings has a nice blue one.
Betty Ligon asked why the Monkshood leaves die? There was no
real answer, perhaps it was the drought of her voles. Pete and
Betty's potato race is now very hot. There are cuts on their asparagus,
cantaloupes, and other vines - is it voles or what else?
It was suggested to contact the County Agent in Rockville. Pete
also remarked that the fruit display here seemed to be more than
the exhibits and everyone was taking more home than he brought.
Mary Moore Miller wants to know if she can control her climbing
Peace Rose by trimming? Yes, overtrim it now and paint it so there
would not be need for so much later. Her Luffa plant is suffering
from the heat.
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