Club Minutes: Horticultural Society, 1880-1891

H/8/1890 -3. H/9/1890 -1- 257 ber plant on the north side of a ridge or in a cold frame

8 How keep celery? Set close together in the ground or in a deep hot bed and cover with forest leaves and then with boards - a trench in the garden is used by some

9 When trim Evergreens? Nov. Decem. or March

The walk in the garden was very interesting. The long rows of vegetables and raspberry vines and a very fine row of grape vines with fine clusters of fruit were very attractive. Adjourned

Norwood Aug 29^th 1890 Temp 78^o to 82^o

A large number of members and guests assembled. The absent members were those from White Hall and Rock Spring. The guests were Edith Bentley, Sarah Needles, Clara Moore Dora Moore Mary and Joseph Tilton, Hetty Moore, Rebecca Moore Sadie Moore, Mabelle Parks, Mrs. Benjamin Moore, Miss Ida Hope -Doeg Carrie Brooke, Mr & Mrs. Henry Maigne Mrs. Harry Gilpin, Mrs. Clarkson Taylor, Mary B. Thomas Beatrix and Martha Tyson Miss Nann[er?] Clark abc Carrie Reese Miss Lizzie Smith, Rebecca Ramsey & Stuart Janney. the specimens were fine; from Longwood, cucumbers, sweet potatoes, crook-neck squash

258 H/9/1890 -2tomatoes Lima beans peppers and a basket of fruit, apples, grapes, pears and peach tomatoes Riverside flowers Rockland, Okra sweet potatoes, crook-neck squash carrot, tomatoes, salsify Lima beans, wax beans, beets, white potatoes, onions, cabbage lettuce and flowers Brooke Grove, Crook-neck squash, corn, tomatoes, Lima beans and sickle pears Fair Hill, Salsify, carrot, squash, toomatoes, onions, Lima beans and flowers Alloway, flowers Riverton, tomatoes, canteleupe pears and flowers. Springdale peppers, sweet potatoes, Lima beans, Mexican black beans and flowers. Carry Brooke, flowers.

1^st reader Eliza Moore an article showing some of the great brain workers enjoyed gardening as a recreation, Ruskin, Harriet - Martinean Jean Ingelow, Miss Mulock and many others. 2^nd Reader Sue Thomas, read a sketch of the life of Miss Wood, author of "Metzeroll Shoemaker, A volunteer article on Hollyhocks was read. Readers for next meeting W. P. Miller and Ellen Farquhar.

Questions 1 How should orchids be treated? No experience among the members. Frances Stabler appointed to experiment and report

2 Is it too late sow turnip seed? No

3 What do with a Daphne, which has been kept dry? Water, and put in a cool room

H/9//1890 -3- 259 or conservatory 4 Will raspberries set out now bear next spring? Yes

5 How get moles out of a lawn? Set mole traps, the kind that has been so satisfactory at several places in the neighborhood.

6 What do with a flower garden over-run with crab-grass? Pull it up and lay boards around the plants

7 How treat old grape vines cut back in the winter and allow only two or three shoots to grow. Mary Miller told us of the vines she had seen in Europe which were kept cut back and were loaded with fruit; the stem near the ground was as thick through as a man's arm.

8 How treat a Calla now that has been growing all summer? Give new earth without disturbing the new roots

9 Have any been troubled with a worm in the stems of rose bushes? One person had noticed two or three stems affected in that way A visitor, who asked the question recommends trimming back severely. A member who was troubled with "Pip" among her fowls was, advised to try equal parts of alcohol and turpentine in water, Put a small quantity of if in their drinking water. Some complained that their hens would not lay. There was a general complaint that egg-plants

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doing well. At one place grasshoppers were very troublesome

Mary Miller was asked to give some account of the plants and methods of gardening she had seen in her travels, at the next meeting

We enjoyed the box walk and the visit to the garden which was in good order; vegetables looked well; grapes seemed abundant, and the strawberry beds were large and in fine condition

We enjoyed having our former assistant Secretary, Mary Moore Tilton with us again; She gave her assistance as naturally as though she had never left us

Adjourned to meet next at Alloway

H/10/1890 -1- 261 Alloway Sept 30^th 1890 noon 60^o This being the last meeting for this year our President requested that we should think of the Society during the winter and be ready with suggestions for its improvement. The absent members were those from White Hall, Longwood and Hermon Guests

The exhibits were very fine and numerous; from Avlon, bush Lima beans snap beans, corrots, salsify, tyrnips, potatoes and Alpine strawberries Tanglewood, flowers, Falling Grove, flowers, Edgewood, Tomato sweet potato, corn Lima beans, from Springdale, Red sweet potato, winter squash Lima beans, white potato and apple blossoms Norwood, beets, Lima beans, snap beans, wax beans, egg-plant, tomatoes, salsify, cabbage Kale, cucumber, canteleupe, spinach, radish, cymblings, sweet pototoes, lettuce horse radish, celery, parsnips, carrots, sweet corn, watermelon, onions, apples turnips, and flowers 25 exhibits The Cedars; flowers, Sharon, flowers Riverside flowers Riverton Hubbard squash Lima beans, turnips, sweet potatoes, white potatoes, peppers, 2 kinds corn, okra, cymblings, tomatoes, carrots & parsnips