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H/8/1966-3.

8-2-1966
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Rose Hutton began the question period without having any.

Wendy Lawrence gave some advice to poison ivy sufferers: to
hold the parts afflicted under very hot water will stop itching from
4 to 6 hours. The President suggested a whole hot shower.

Helen Bentley said to use rubber or cotton gloves when using
poison dust or spray in your garden.

Buzz Hussman seems to have lost a white pine which is very
brown; is it gone? Jack Bentley has sprayed mildewed trees with DDT
and they have come back to life. Bea Wilson uses "Kelthene" spray
for evergreens, but those over 90% brown will pass out.

Catherine Adams asked what is eating her tomatoes, if its not
turtles? They may be birds, so she should make green tomato pickles
before losing them altogether.

John Weske had heard that somewhere blacksnakes were mating
with copperheads. He wondered if that was illegal integration.

Mrs. Kendall wanted to know how to prune her big Japanese Holly
bush? The President says it can be cut back as much as 50% in any
shape desired, either now or in April when it is making new growth.

Douglas Farquhar mentioned that Si Jones' old gardening rule
was to scatter plant all leftover garden seed between August 4th &
8th - should he do that now? Yes, nothing would be lost but labor.

Betty Ligon has had chicken wire moved around certain parts of
her garden to keep out ground hogs and purple grackles. She suggests
that plenty of water will naturally make fine vegetables.

Your Secretary wanted to know how to save his brown boxwood.
There again the answer is plenty of water, soaking the bushes half
the time if that much water is available.

Lucy Manning asked if you could cut the boxwood back to the
green and then soak it with water, would it start up again? If not
too far gone, it would seem to help in certain situations. Others
are also having trouble with brown boxwoods this year, and Bea Wilson
wants to know where she can get some new large boxwood as replacement.

Jack Bentley wanted to know if anyone had Japanese beetles
this year? Very, very few reported, some only counting as many as 10.

Edward Iddings reports no poison ivy, after being soaked in soap.

President Hutton brought a large brown envelope out of his desk,
in which he had Oak leaves with as many as 20 small galls. What is it
that starts this disease? There seem to be 670 varieties that bother
Oak trees, with many more unkown, which the tree fights like a tumor.
The growing lava mature before the leaf falls, so that one cannot burn it.

Dr. Garretson was asked what effect these new drugs might have on
treatment of cancer? He said some believed that virus was a main cause,
and some hot research was going on now in plants, smaller animals, even
in monkeys, so why not experiment on man?

The meeting was adjourned at 9:10 pm, to meet in September at
"The Cedars" with Douglas and Helen Farquhar.

Alan F. Thomas Secretary

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