Club Minutes: Horticultural Society, 1891-1906

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Brooke Grove June 1893

The Horticultural met at Brooke Grove. The Secretary being absent there were no minutes of the previous meeting. The first thing in order was the reading of the exhibits present

Rockland, flowers, beans, corn 2 ft 3 in.

Stanmore corn onions, beets, carrots, salsify parsnips potatoes peas and flowers.

Riverton, cabbage, lettuce, peas onions potatoes strawberries & flowers

Rock Spring, peas, onions, beets, radishes, potatoes, lettuce carrots salsify, corn, cabbage, strawberries and cymbling plants.

Edgewood, corn, beets, peas gooseberries strawberries & flowers

Alloway, onions, beets, peas strawberries and flowers.

Longwood, parsnips, carrots, potatoes, beets onions string beans plants, Spinach and flowers

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Falling Green. cabbage corn, onions, peas potatoes, plants of snap beans and cymbling and flowers.

The Cedars. Beets, peas, and flowers

Tanglewood peas, beets, onions, bean plants

Sharon Flowers and strawberry

Hermon Canteleupe, water melon and green tomatoes in cans, strawberries peas and flowers

Norwood cabbage, corn, bean plant peas, potatoes, lettuce, parsnip, onions.

Cloverley cabbage, potatoes, onions radishes, beets, salsify, corn, peas parsnips and flowers.

Readers, Ellen Farquhar read a very interesting article on raising dahlias. Charlie Brooke the 2nd reader forgot he was appointed but talked about raising watermelons. The best time to plant is right after corn planting, plant very thick, so it will allow plenty to come up and the bugs to eat. James Stabler never plants till very late as the bugs never trouble till after 15th of June

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Sprinkle plaster over the seeds every day before they come up, and keep putting on and make white with it

The next thing was the Poultry report.

Alloway 140 chickens 10 ducks 11 [Turkies?]

Brooke Grove 50 chickens 12 Turkies

The Cedars 90 chickens

Cloverley 140 chickens 3 goslings 27 Turkies

Edgewood 45 chickens 29 ducks

Fair Hill 200 chickens 30 Turkies

Falling Green 250 chickens 23 ducks 34 Turkies

Hermon 95 chickens

Longwood 250 chickens 55 ducks 40 Turkies

Norwood 90 chickens

Riverton 125 chickens 20 ducks 2 [Keats?] 1 Turkies

Rockland 295 chickens

Rock Spring 175 chickens 5 ducks 8 goslings 36 Turkies

Stanmore 75 chickens

Tanglewood 200 chickens

Eliza Brooke had a very interesting article on "forethought" The noon Tem - 85 degrees at Rockland Woodburn was voted on and elected members

Questions

1 When is the best time to transplant

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large evergreens? 1st of June

2 Has anyone tried sawdust as a mulch for strawberries and asparagus? It has been tried and liked by some

3 Is it best to let asparagus go to seed or be cut down? Let it do to seed but do not let the seed go to the ground

4 What is the best kind of tomato for late use? Hendersons Ponderosa

5 What is the best thing to a bulb bed that is full of weeds? Spade up and you can put other plants there

6 How can you prevent cat-birds from eating strawberries? Put a string across the bed and newspapers to scare them away.

7 What is best to do with a Lily of the Valley bed to make bloom. Put the plants a little distance apart and do not have too thick

8 What is the best time to plant a lily of the Valley bed? 1st of June

The rain prevented most of the guests from visiting the gardens, but those who did go, reported everything in perfect order and a fine prospect for Summer vegetables

After a charming meeting a to The Cedars, July 4th

Mary Miller Stabler

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The Cedars 71 1/2 degrees July 4th 1893

The Horticultural met at The Cedars on July 4th. The Exhibit was an excellent one and the attendance was good. The absent members were those of Fair Hill, Edgewood and Riverside, and the guests were Mary H. Miller, Mrs Parsons, Carrie Stabler, Ellen Stabler Emily Massey, Mrs. Harry Gilpin Marcia Libbey, Rebecca T. Miller, Lillie Williams Henry and Isabel Farquhar.

After the reading of the minutes, A G Thomas called the attention of the Society to one of the questions of the day, that of Roads, by reading an admirable article on the subject. Mary S. Hallowell and Dr. Kirk were appointed readers for the next meeting which was announced as belonging to Cloverley. By request those who had recently returned from the World's Fair told something of their trips. Eliza N. Moore spoke of the Rose garden in which she saw 50,000 rose bushes in full bloom; of the Japanese exhibit of dwarf plants, of the Water plants in and near the Lagoon, and of