Club Minutes: Horticultural Society, 1880-1891

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H/6/1890 -1- 247 Riverton June 3rd 1890 On this day we had our first meeting at the beautiful home of our new member Kate Janney. Our President, in a few words expressed our gratification at being here. The absent were the members from Alloway White Hall and Hermon. Our guests Sarah and Elizabeth Stabler, Mary Mary Hutton Miss Elise Hutton, Mr. & Mrs. Henry Miller, Miss Lizzie Hall, Rose Stabler, Mr. and Mrs. Waters, Anna and Edward Gilpin Elsie Stabler Carrie & Walter Brooke

No suggestions were made for the improvement of the Society and there was no new business

The Poultry report - Chickens ducks turkies Keats Cloverlea 125 25 5 Brooke Grove 35 9 Rock Spring 180 19 17 7 Avalon 123 7 Longwood 225 27 30 Riverside 55 7 Fair Hill 230 36 49 Norwood 100 5 3 Riverton 225 15 5 Tanglewood 80 Falling Green 250 46

1st reader C. F. Kirk a short political

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article, which gave hope that sometime in the dim future the consumers might equal the producers in numbers and farmers get better prices 2nd reader Sally Janney, read "Spraying for Insects" showing the good effects of tobaccco water, soap suds &c but that a strong stream of pure water was best of all, for all kinds of insects and even English Sparrows. She also read an article on potting lilies for winter blooming, recommending June as none too early, in fact, the best month Anna Gilpin read of the Flower Mission.

The Secretary read from "Farm & Home" of the present fashion of using the bow of ribbon for decorating all sorts of incongruous things, and last and best a letter to the Society Ellen Farguhar (from Italy) giving some horticultural information from foreign parts and containing a message from M. M. Miller in which we are promised in the near future that the "desert" of Alloway shall blossom as the Rose"!

The readers for next meeting are Annie Brooke Kirk and Alice T. Stabler

Questions 1 How get rid of chickweed? Burn it It should not be thrown on the compost heap, as the seeds will ripen and it will grow wherever the compost is used

2 What use for destroying striped bug Try dusting with air slacked lime in which a little kerosene has been mixed.

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H/6/1890 -3- 249 crude petroleum on a corn cob put on the hill is said to drive them of

3 Any way to get rid of wire grass? pull up and burn every joint. It is said to have such wonderful vitality that it has been known to grow after being hung up for a year; a member found it growing through a potato.

4 How did John Bentley raise his five egg - plants last year? He set the plants in the missing hills in the cornfield, in July, a dust of south Carolina Rock was put in, and there had but one hoeing afterward. Some plants had nine fine eggs on them It is thought new land is good for them.

5 When bud a lemon tree? Not known but thought it should be done when the tree is showing new growth.

6 How many Lima beans leave in a hill? plant 5, leave 3.

7 A round cactus has put out out a young sprout, what should be done about it? Take it off and place on damp sand to root

8 How get rid of wire grass in an Asparagus bed? Salt sowed on it will kill everything but the asparagus. Put it on the spring.

9 How treat rose bushes which are dying

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10 Soap suds has been recommended for rose bushes. It it gets on the foliage will it injure it? Whale oil soap suds does not. It would be well to try other kinds

11 How often cut sage? As often as it has a good growth of leaves. Some advise planting seed every [?] year and not keep the roots a second year. We find that several members have already had peas, beets, onions & strawberries from their gardens. At Cloverly and Riverside, the earliest cherries had ripened and were gone, taken by birds Roger Farquhar brought a branch of grape vine to show an insect pest The secretary brought double white narcissus roots for the members

The specimens were as follows Avalon flowers & peas Riverdale flowers Norwood peas, onions, beets, and potatoes and radishes two weeks from the seed. & "100 leaf" Roses. Longwood flowers, cabbage, corn, onions, beets salsify, parsnips, peas, potatoes, radishes & beans Brooke Grove onions, beets, peas, new potatoes, strawberries and flowers Rockland, egg-plant, cabbage, lettuce radishes, onions, beets, peas, strawberries & flowers. Cloverley strawberries, peas, beets, bean Edgewood flowers. Fair Hill beets, immense radish and flowers Falling Green. Peas, beets, and potatoes.

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H/6/1890 -5. 251 Rock Spring, peas, cabbage, asparagus, corn, potatoes and strawberries our guest Carry Brooke and Anna F. Gilpin brought flowers.

We visited the garden which was looking well, and tho' our hostess complained of the stiff soil, she said always had vegetables. The flowers garden had been over run with chick-weed so that the rose bushes had been moved into a new bed where they give good promise of future bloom.

The lawn is beautifully set with grass and the trees, the rocks, the river, made a charming scene, and the group of lovely babies, added beauty and interest. Gladys Brooke, Edith Bentley, Donald Kirk and Sidney Hutton. Eliza N. B. Moore was appointed to answeer our letter from Ellen Farquhar.

Adjourned to meet at Fair Hill July 1st.

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