Club Minutes: Horticultural Society, 1880-1891

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quince trees bear? None

3 How destroy moles? Poison corn and put in their paths, also try mole traps

4 What eats geranium blossoms? A small bee that lives in the ground No remedy for it

5 How keep "lady bugs" from cucumbers Try onions

6 What do with lillies of the valley that are very luxuriant but do not bloom? Try thinning in the early spring

7 What is the best way to keep a be gonia to make it bloom in the winter? Keep it in the pot in a shady place.

8 How should grapes be thinned? Leave one bunch on an arm if the quality desired

9 Shall we drive away and destroy English Sparrows? Our President considers them more friends than enemies; others say they destroy peach and pear buds. In Germany they have to watch the wheat fields to protect them from the sparrows

10 What do with cabbage worms? Many remedies advised. Paris Green seemed the most successful.

We found the garden in its usual fine order, though our host

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thought otherwise. Before adjourn ing we were requested to group ourselves for a photograph, which our hosts son wished to take; The Horticultural as a body complied and the result is a very good pic-ture of our society. Adjourned after a very pleasant meeting, to meet at Fulford August 7th

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Fulford

August 7th 1883 noon 79°

Assembled at the usual hour. Every family except one Edgewood represented. Our guests Uriah Kirk and wife, Mrs. Dr. Iddings Richard and Edith Bentley Mrs. Tyson & daughters, Sallie Bond and daugh -ter, Madge Miller & Mary T. Kirk

Our specimen tables were well filled especially the flower table. From Rockland came tomatoes, eggplant, corn, 3 kinds of beans cucumbers, apples, peaches, pears, cymblings carrots beets, potatoes, Kohlrabi & Flowers. Sharon, 2 kinds of beans, cymlings, corn cucumbers, tomatoes, 4 kinds of apples & Flowers Norwood, okra, onions, potatoes. Hermon, Tomatoes Fuchsias & Roses Longwood, Tomatoes, pears, corn, cymlings, cucumbers, potatoes, beans and Flowers Rirverside, Flowers. Olney, Flowers. Brooke Grove Flowers. Alloway and White Hall had fine exhibits the secretary failed to get a full list of them. From Stanmore had martynias apples and grapes and Robert R. Moore brought grapes and figs

Of the readers, Mary Margruder read an article on winter plants, Sarah B. Stabler an article called "A Barbers bouquet"

Questions

1 Are seedling grapes worth taking

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care of? No, only about 1 out of 100 turns out good.

2 What causes cymling vines to die sud denly after appearing healthy? Supposed it may be a worm in the stem. Sometimes it can be removed and the plant recover.

3 Lima beans are reported as doing well generally and it is recommended to nip the ends of the vines.

Richard Bentley gave a description of a trellis for tomatoes which many of our members hope to try next year it being cheap, easy to handle, and durable. Robert Moore has tried training a tomato vine to a bean pole; it is now six feet high but is not bearing. Egg-plants fail with some persons in spite of great atten -tion. Perhaps killed with kindness. There is a general complaint of their being late and some failures.

Those who have tried D. M. Fer -ry's seed, are disappointed in them this year, except where bought at head quarters.

The vote for an Exhibition at the Lyceum was taken, and resulted in 24 for to 5 against it. The time fixed upon, the 13th of September and our President reminded us of the im portance of each one's doing his part

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faithfully.

The garden was visited and tho' our hosts time is so completely occupied with mechanical pursuits, that it is not up to the usual high standard of ex -cellence, it was plain to be seen that his family will not suffer for want of fine vegetables

The Lawn is very much improved by the use of the lawn mower.

The Secretary brought some bulbs of Narcissi for distribution

After a very delightful meeting we separated to meet next at Alloway. The readers for next meeting Robert H Miller and Edith Hallowell