Club Minutes: Horticultural Society, 1880-1891

272 H/5/1891 -4Very much be some and not at all by others

7 What is the best way to train tomatoes Some like to stake and tie them up but a majority like best to mulch with straw and let them grow their own way.

8 How best cure gapes in chickens? Some are successful in taking the worms from the wind pipe with a horse hair noose. Others put Kerosene in their drinking water A member tried turpentine. Some members who use soft food have no gapes - others who use only hard food have no gapes

9 Who has heard of the coming fruit the Buffalo berry? Nothing known about it

10 What do with lilacs bushes which have grown scraggy? Cut back to about 3 feet.

11 What is the best fertilizer for sweet potatoes? On rich soil nothing is needed. On stiff soil wood pile earth to lighten the soil.

12 A new asparagus bed is becoming weedy, how treat it? Considered better to hoe this year than to apply salt.

13 Do the members prefer planting Lima beans in a square patch or in long rows? Divided opinion

A disease among hens which cause them to have fits, was

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spoken of and Henry Miller appointed to investigate it

Some of our members who are trying Davis's plants recommend them very highly as being fine thrifty plants and many for a small outlay of money. M. B. Magruder described an Automatic Cooker, which she has promised to bring to the next meeting to show to us.

Our walk was very pleasant The garden was in fine order and many things planted. There was not a weed to be seen and the plants which were up looked well

Adjourned to meet at Cloverley

274 H/6/1891 -1Cloverly June 2^nd 1891 noon 84^o At the usual hour nearly all our members assembled. The absent were Avalon Sharon and the Cedars. Our guests were, Edith Bentley, Dr and Mrs Elbrey, Joe and Annie Shoemaker, Edward Thomas Edith Thomas Farquhar May Thomas Rebecca and Patty Miller George Miller and Miss Johnson,

The President in his opening remarks spoke feelingly of the loss of two of our oldest members. Edward and Deborah Lea and read a tribute which he had prepared for publication The members expressed their approval of his remarks and several other members spoke in high terms of these kind and good neighbors and friends.

The minutes were read and approved and the account of poultry given as follows Brooke Grove 100 chickens 30 turkies 2 ducks 2 gos Alloway 144 chickens 7 turkies 4 ducks Cloverley 100 chickens 14 turkies 10 ducks Edgewood 120 chickens 7 turkies 18 ducks Fair Hill 275 chickens 56 turkies 38 ducks 2 gos Falllling Green 261 chickens 58 turkies Hermon 225 chickens Longwood 200 chickens 25 turkies 33 ducks Norwood 100 chickens

H/6/1891 -2- 275 Riverside 75 chickens 22 keats Rockland 275 chickens 2 keats 3 turkies 2 ducks Rock Spring About 30 out of 300 chickens 34 ducks 12 goslings White Hall 200 chics 30 turkies and judging by the noise a 1000 quineas Stanmore 140 chickens Riverton 200 chickens

Margaret Magruder used sulphur for insects on some of her chickens which proved effectual, not only killing the insects but also the chickens

1^st Reader Sue Thomas, read an amusing list of the wonderful exhibits which we are to see at the Chicago Fair.

A volunteer article was read by E. J. Hall from the National Intelligencer of 1826, on keeping apples; some were good and sound at 3 years old. Secretary read from the "Mayflower", a method for rooting geranium cuttings in "Sand pots".

Henry Miller informed that late tomatoes should be set out this month

Readers for next meeting Emma Stabler and Roger B. Farquhar.

For new business, John Bentley proposed that Henry Miller be elected to full membership. The motion was seconded and the vote was unanimus in his

276 H/6/1891 -3favor. A member was appointed to inform him and his wife of the result He expressed has gratification, and they will now be privileged to entertain the Society when the proper time comes.

The specimens were from, Norwood corn 36 inches high, beets onions radishes, peas and strawberries; from Tanglewood, bean in bloom, peas, salsify corn, & beet; Brook Grove, flowers corn, beets, onions, peas, potatoes & lettuce Longwood, strawberries. radishes, beets onions, peas, potatoes and flowers. Fair Hill, flower, and peas White Hall, beets, spinach, beans, onions and flowers; Stanmore flowers. Riverside flowers and strawberries Rockland, onions, beets, lettuce, egg plant (plant) radishes, cabbage and flowers Riverton flowers, beets, peas, potatoes, onions corn, beans (plants) Edgewood flowers & strawberries, Rock Spring, asparagus, onions potatoes cymblings (plant) and peas Falling Green, flowers, strawberries, beets Hermon flowers, potatoes, cabbage, onions beets corn, carrot and salsify plants peas bean, watermelon, canteleupe and cymbling plants

Questions A bed of liles of the Valley is over run with blue bells. What should