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June 4, 1991, Rose Hill, page 1

We returned to Rose Hill, home of the Rogers, for our June
meeting. Due to the energies and creativity of its
denizens, Rose Hill remains ever more so an oasis of
gentility and rooted beauty amidst suburbia's younger
sprawl. We were missing the Ellers, the Bullards, the
Hanels, Mary Manning, and Priscilla Allen. We were
fortunate to have as guests Anne Jamison, Lisa Ritter, Mike
Hyser, and Susan Canby's parents. Redge and Jenny Fifer.
After a splendid repast we commenced the meeting with the
reading of the previous meeting's minutes. They were
corrected without too much bombast and recrimination and we
progressed to the selected reader.

Tom Canby chose a National Geographic bulletin article about
whitetail deer overpopulation in Catoctin National Park.
This is the 4th year that the numbers of deer are at a level
in the park that threaten starvation of their own species,
damage to other lifeforms, and extinction of others. Since
there is no hunting allowed the deer have no enemies and
their population has increased unhindered to the dramatic
detriment of all. It was a sobering, well-written article
that made an undeniable case for thinning the population
before further irreparable harm to the Catoctin area or any
region similarly afflicted is incurred.

Ellis Manning followed with the reading of the hundred year
old minutes. Worth repeating was the entry that sulpher
applied to chickens kill insects...but also kills the
chickens.

Harold Earp followed with a distilled version of the
Extension Service Forethought Report. We are advised to not
cut asparagus after late June. Where bagworms are a
problem, pick them off and follow with a BT spray later on
in the month. Plant gladiolas, dalias, and mums. Apple 5-
10-5 fertilizer to roses after first crop of blossoms to
guard against black spot. Also spray roses with a solution
of 1 tablespoon powdered milk to a gallon of water for
sticker. Where slugs are a nuisance, let them drown in
beer. Stake your tomatoes if you want bigger, less numerous
fruits - cage them if you want your crop smaller and more
numerous. Cut, prune, and apply 5-10-5 to annuals. If your
zinnias have powdery mildew pull them out and start again
from seed. To protect fruit trees from coddling moth hang
red painted spent lightbulbs coated with petroleum jelly.
Don't forget to water, water, water and weed, weed, weed.

John Hartge gave us the Meteorologist Report we could've
done without. It was the hottest May on record with a