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H/9/1968-1-
(105th Year)
THE HORICULTURAL SOCIETY
THE CEDARS
SEPTEMBER 3, 1968

We met again at this home where hospitality has been extended to many meetings of
this society for several generations. The house and grounds spoke of the care
bestowed on them by our host and hostess and we enjoyed delicious food which seems
always to come out well-balanced in spite of the "pot-luck" provision for it. The
weather again favored us.

We were glad to have Ethel F. Thomas and the four Hussman children as guests. Our
associate member, Edward Iddings was absent, as were Robert & Mary Reading Miller.

The Pres. welcomed to associate membership Sarah D. Mannakee, attending for the
first time.

The minutes of the Aug. meeting were read and approved.

Elizabeth Canby read from the American Garden Forester for March 1968 telling of
the new eleven story Ford Foundation Building (Headquarters) on 2nd Ave. between
42nd & 43rd Sts. in New York city. 1/3 of an A is planted in trees, shrubs, ground
planting & vines, the latter in some cases hanging 3 stories. Glass walls add to
the interest and it is called the tallest green house anywhere. It was started
in the summer of 1967 and is a "dry garden" with humidity kept at 28% to 38%. Air
conditioning is subject to seasonal changes. Trees have been selected to withstand
air polution by auto exhaust and roots are ventilated on sloping ground. Flood
lights add to the beauty. Our appetites have been whetted to see this.

Mary Moore Miller read an article telling of a project in Miami, Fla. to
get rid of the al l-aluminum beer cans dropped on the highways. If turned in to a
certain oil company's filling stations, a half cent stamp is offered. The stamps
are redeemable in gasoline and a metal company melts the cans for reuse as metal.
The problem of the tinplated can had not yet been solved.

Sylvia Woodward gave us plenty of "forethought" to keep us busy if we did
all that was suggested, such as: Trim annuals for new bloom this fall; feed the
lawns with 15 to 25 lbs of 5-10-5 fertilizer to 1000 sqft. now and again in Oct.;
keep grass cut; plant daffodils deeply, cultivating from 12 to 15 inches; bring in
house plants; cut tons of peonies to 3 or 4 inches and burn tops if flowers did not
open well; plant new ones or divide the old with good drainage for them; start
geranium cuttings; divide primroses; feed and water chrysanthemums; debud early
bloomers; cease feeding and cultivating roses; cut asparagus at ground level and
fertilize; do not wrap tomatoes in newspaper as the stem has to ventilate; also of interest
was the word that the sap from the loblolly pine promises help as a medicine.

Our weather man, Douglas Farquhar, gave us the report of Aug. '68 on ave. high
83 degrees, ave. low 66 degrees, highest 90 degrees for several days, lowest 51 degrees on Aug. 31st. Measurable
rainfall on 10 days was a total of 1.46 inches; mean temp. 75 degrees. He found by the diary
of his grandfather, Wm. Henry Farquhar that for Aug. 1868 the ave. Aug. temp. was 68 degrees.

We welcomed John Weske back from Siberia where he had been for 7 months
teaching. The summer there had lots of rain and in Feb the temp. was -50 degrees but it
was a dry cold with clear sunny weather and pleasant. One has to be careful of
ears and nose, however.

The Asst. Sec'y, Zela Heckendorn showed a vine that Ethel Thomas had
brought, -without a name Helen Farquhar said it is akebia and probably came from
The Cedars. It has a pretty cream colored cluster of flowers but can become a pest, if
not controlled. Rocky Ridge had fox glove plants and grapes; Great Ease had
watermelon, cantelopes, lycoris (radiato, -red); Oakwood had phlox, michaelemas
daisies and physistegia; M. M. Miller had roses, giant marigolds and some of the
marigolds from the plant given out earlier by Wm. Heckendorn; Spring Villa had petunias,
asters, 3 kinds of beans, peppers, tomatoes. We said we could learn about the