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this time.

Sylvia Woodward, serving as our
perennial forethought committee, presented
us with a long list of spring chores -
reminders of what to do for our trees, lawns,
shrubs, and flower borders. With such a
cold wet April it will be difficult for
us to maintain her rigorous schedule -
but it's nice to have someone prod us
along and we are grateful to Sylvia for
her "helpful hints". ( Complete list filed
with the minutes).

We continued with a selected
reading by Mary Moore Miller, from
National Wildlife Magazine, April 1972, en
titled " This pesticide has polka dots".
This is the story of the "increasing role
being played by ladybugs as an efficient
and relatively cheap natural pesticide".
Since commercial pesticides many times
destroy beneficial insects, many home
gardeners are turning to the ladybug
which is a ravenous destroyer of
aphids. The article relates an interesting
life-story of the ladybug and is