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H/5/1967-1-

May 2nd. Bea and Clair Hutton's

On a beutiful, warm May afternoon The Horticultural gathered
at the actractive home of Bea and Clair Hutton. The blooming
shrubs and estensive border- a mass of color set around a beautiful
green, well shorn lawn was a scene to gratify and horticulurlest.
Big drops of rain began to fall as we were called in to supper, and
The interior of the house was as lovely as the outside-and the food as
usual was abundernt and good- so we were unmindful of the weather.

Helen and Douglas Fraquhar were the only absentees- and
Mr. & Mrs. William Hartshorne and Mrs. Trice were our guests.

The minutes were more or less approved as red- although
Bea Wilson took exception to being aga in appointed Forethought.

Under old business the Secretary reported having written
Wendy and Clive Lawrence and Helen and Jack Bentley- and have recieved
an answer from Jack. The Membership committee suggested the names
of Sylvia and Richard Woodward to renew their membership with us, and
it was heartily approved. The Secretary was instructed to notify
them. A further report will be given next month.

Elizabeth Canby read, for her selected article from a
magazine published by the American Seed Reserch Foundation- on,
"Forests of Tomorrow." The forest industry on the United States is
changing rapidly from the first cutting of a wild forest to the continuous
harvesting of managed forest. Since Foresty ranks up top of
the nation's leading industural employees, what happens in the woods
affects the welfare of the substantial part of the population. In
the early days of forestry, trees were considered to be inexhaustible
and there seem to be little need for planting new stands. Now forest
acreage is being severly reduced every year by dams, freeways, power
lines and subdivisions. It is obvious that foresters must obtain higher
productivity out of each remaining acre to meet the demand for
forest products. Cutout land must be reforested as soon as wood crop
is harvested- we can't wait for nature to do it. Adequate seed crops
may not occur for periods of 5/6 years. Hence, the forester must lay
up a bank in the fat years to tide him over the lean ones. The
gathering of forest seed is a time consuming and dollar consuming
prosess. Certainly foresters can't afford to store tons of poor seed,
hence the vital importance of research in collection and testing.
It was a facinating artical which went on the tell of the research
in forest genetics, seed orchards, seed storage and processing.
Much of the seeding is done by hand- some in the fall other species in
the spring. Much profress has been made in tree seed handling techniques
in the recent years. The next 20 years should see even greater
improvements in control of cone collections and seed processing.

Alan Thomas red the Treasurers report- and it was repeated
that we shall keep our wealth until such time s hospital is ready
to have some planting done. Dueas were collected- $6.50- and added
to the balance reported gives us, in hand $25.80

Instead of a volunteer article, Elizabeth Ligon told of
a road- a back road to Baltimor which followed the road on which
the two Hutton homers are now, on. There was a ford at the river-
and there was also a weighing station at the Brighton end of the road.

Although Bea Wilson had not thought she was still Forethought
she told us to use Antrol for the eradication of Dandylions.
Mary Moore Miller has a tubular can which she fills with 24D- and can
press it down into the plant- pull or press a button and it seems
to be very effective.