Club Minutes: Horticultural Society, 1891-1906

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Try driving nails in it.

Hallie Bentley who asked for her recipe for cleaning clothes with gasoline. Apply the gasoline with a cloth or brush, to the soiled parts and hang in the open air. Keep at a distance from the fire while using gasoline

Roger Farquhar informed us that the gardens in Nealsville and Clarksburg were in advance of ours!

Can such things be! or is this a traveler's story?

Several members are using woven wire for peas instead sticks on strings

After a pleasant meeting we adjourned expecting to meet next month at Riverside.

July 1892

The meeting for this month was omitted on account of the death of our dear friend and member Mary M. Miller

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Riverton Aug. 2nd 1892 noon 82degrees

Our President spoke feelingly of the loss we have sustained since our last meeting. The death of Mary M. Miller is felt by all. She was so much to our society and to us individually. Our President those mourn the dead who live as they would wish" and he loves to feel as though she were still with us tho' beyond our sight

Absent - Alloway Avalon The Cedars

The guests were numerous Dr. Charles Farquhar and wife [mifs?] Denver [mifs?] Grace Knight, Mr Marshall Miss McCormick, Mr Duck Miss Ethel Stewart, Sarah T. Miller Mary Reese Lizzie Gilpin Hogg Elise Hutton Sallie Ellicott, Ernest Adams Ernest Adams Gill Mellville Parker Mr. Lansdale Mrs. Lewis Hopkins Mrs Hutchins Miss Rockwell Miss Howel and Mr. Manly.

The specimens were good but their were few exhibitions From Norwood, cabbage corn cymlings tomatoes, parsnips string beans

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lima beans, salsify, radishes, beets, and a dish of coleus; Rockland, beets, cabbage, potatoes, cucumbers, carrots, tomatoes, corn, salsify, Lima beans, apples & flowers; Riverside flowers, Hermon flowers; Edgewood, corn, tomatoes, Lima beans & a fine canteloupe, Longwood corn tomatoes, salsify, parsnips, potatoes and flowers, Charles Hartshorne brought a fine collection of gladiolus Our hostess had fine potatoes in exhibition.

The readers for this meeting were absent. Sallie Janney favored us with some verses on "An Old Red Rooster" written by one of our neighborhood girls and which were quite amusing.

The next meeting is to be at Longwood; the readers Mrs. Nesbit and Dr. Green

The question of the time from the exhibition at the Lyceum was discussed and after much voting was fixed for the 30th of Aug.

H. H. Miller said the work

for the month should be to get ready for the Exhibition and keep weeds down. Samuel Hopkins says it is a good time to sow Kale

Questions

1 Is it too late to sow turnip seeds? Just the best time

2 What the best way to make an asparagus bed? Make it very rich plant the roots in the spring, keep the weeds down with salt put on in April and thick enough to look white on the ground

3 Has any one experience in getting rid of grown ivy? No

4 When trim raspberries, and how much? After they are done bearing cut out all canes which bore this year and leave three young canes for next years fruit.

We found the garden looking well; long rows of tomato plants! strawberry beds, sweet potatoes and other vegetables all were flourishing.

The flower garden was in good order and a new bed of roses from A.B. Davis of Va. was doing wonderfully well. Tho' only planted this Spring.

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Longwood Sept 6th 1892 noon 73 degrees

The meeting was called to order at 4.30 instead of 4 o'clock. Our want of punctuality is a trial to our President. The absent members Alloway Avalon, Longwood and The Cedars. The guests were Edith D. Bentley, Mary Tilton Moore, Marian Libbey Mary B. Thomas Mrs Laura Moors Elizabeth and Mariana Stabler Mr. & Mrs. John Janney Emilie T. Brooke Mrs Hattie Riddel Davis and Fanny Koerper.

The Specimens

Fair Hill flowers; Riverton, sweet potatoes Lima beans and corn; Norwood cymblings, cabbage, carrots, salsify parsnips and grapes; Rockland cabbage, carrots, Lima beans, salsify tomatoes, sweet potatoes, corn & flowers: Riverside flowers; White Hall corn, tomatoes, Lima beans, Ruta baga field corn, apples, pears, grapes and flowers; Hermon a large pyramid of flowers; Falling Green sweet potatoes, white potatoes and