Club Minutes: Horticultural Society, 1907-1917

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The plan has many advocates

Forethought

Continue the war against weeds set our celery and keep well watered. Set our late cabbage, sow turnip seed and cucumber for pickles, beet, beans and lettuce and make last planting of corn, the middle of the month, and plenty of it. Train Lima beans to pole, nipping the ends of long vines; work melons until they cover the ground. Work strawberries. Clear off each crop as it is done bearing. Floral Life's advice for this month is "to fight weeds, keep flower beds in order and help the plants to stand the hot sun.: H.W. Beecher said "to get rid of a weed make a cultivated plant of it. Then cats would claw it, dogs roll over it, hens scratch it up, winds dry it up, hail beat it, raints drown it our and sun scorch it; but as long as it was a weed none of these things would check it." But even weeds die if pulled up, and one bed gone over each day would keep the garden fairly clean. Mow the grass twice a week snip off seed pods to keep the plants blooming longer. Stake those plants which need a support, cosmos, Dahlias, gladioli boltonias and chrysanthemums. Nip in plants which you expect to bloom next winter, abutilons, carnation etc. When the winds are high and sun hot mulch roses, asters, lilies, hydrangeas, etc. Mulching saves watering in a measure. Grass clippings are good. Start biennials and perennials for next years blooming. Make the seed bed where it will have partial shade.

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Poultry report Meteorologist no report Exhibits fine. From five places came ripe tomatoes. The Cedars Falling Green Brooke Grove Edgewood and Tanglewood. From Highland strawberries. Vegetables and fruits were abundant. Flowers were very beautiful and of many varieties including Magnolia Grandiflora, pink roses, geraniums and many others down to the way side orange lily, which had to grow fouble for this occasion. Dorothy Brooke read a letter from Mary T. Kirk giving her father's thanks for the kindness and attention he had received from the Society. No new business and no bills presented.

Questions {1}What the tallest tree in the neighborhood? Several tall trees were named but it is not known which is the tallest. {2}Any prevention for the worm which gets into the stalks of stems of cucumbers? none known {3}Any remedy for blight in salsify? none known Mary Magruder appointed to write to the Dep. of Ag. for a remedy for the blight. {4}Any preventive for the borer of Hubbard Squash? We do not know of any. {5}Are we making a fight against rats? C.F. Brooke use bisulphide of copper. Put it down the holes, and cover them; the fumes bein gheavier than air sink and the rats die in them. {7}Is it too late to bag grapes? Late, but "better late than never." {8}What two best kind of late cabbage? Flat dutch and Savoy. Flat dutch larger but Savoy keeps best.

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{9}Do you can early apples? some do but most wait for fall apples. {10}Do any succeed in raising late peas? No. {11}Do any put fertilizer in the hills for Lima beans? Very few.

C.F. Brooke offers celery plants to any who want them.

Our visit to the garden through the Box walk was very interesting. The long rows of asparagus, the cabbage, corn, strawberry beds and tomatoes were all fine. The vases and boxes of ornamental plants were in flourishing condition and a dazzling cactus in full bloom.

The numbers will be notified in time of the time and place for the next meeting. Readers Anna Nesbitt Mary Kirk

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Alloway

Aug 3rd 1909

This meeting opened with remarks on the weather! We have had no rain since the 17th of June: No real rain for forty-seven days and very light showers, but those who planted gardens early have good vegetables. Only a few have had corn for the table and the need of rain is very great. Mary Magruder who wrote, by request, to the Dep. of Ag. for a remedy for blight of Salsify was answered that nothing was known of the cause or cure of it. Two lots had been sent to them. When they find out about it they will write to her.

1st Reader Anna Nesbitt "What is Wonderberry?" Burbank says it is a cross between two wild varieties of Solanum. A few people give it praise but the majority think it too much like the old weed, black nightshade which we were taught in early life was a terribly poisonous plant. 2nd Reader Mary Kirk was absent. Volunteer Frances Stabler gave an interesting account of how the women of California had persisted in their effots to save the big trees of California untul they succeeded, and the trees are safe!

Forethought

The second planting of corn is a failure at some places. Turnips seed, if not planted in July should be sown at once and plenty of Kale byt the middle of this month, where poultry cannot get at it. Hoe and plow cabbage and if worms are there, apply insect powder every two or three weeks either dissolved or dry mixed with flour cultivate the garden and use the scythe for weeds

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Pull weeds from the melon patch but do not hoe it now. Set out celery and cabbage and onion set the last of the month for spring eating. Sow lettuce, also beans and cucumbers for pickles. Roses should be fertilized but do not hoe nor trim them now. Prepare plants for winter, pot some bulbs. Keep strawberry beds clean Exhibits were good, what there were, but owing to the dry weather there fewer than usual.

Alice Stabler found by applying to the Dep. of Ag. that the name of John Janney's clover is Trifolinm Swaveolens from Persia, grown in England for its odor.

Questionss {1}Is it too late to plant cucumbers for pickles? Perhaps not. {2}Can roses be moved now? Yes, with care, at any time. {3}Does any one know the Loganberry? Only by name in the catalogues. {4}How raise onions? Make the ground rich wood ashes helps them. {5}How raise onions which will not have a hard stem or neck? Try small sets. {6}When plant sets for Spring use? Now. August. {7}What fertilizer for celery? South Carolina Rock. {8}Do any shorten in cucumber vines? Will Emma Stabler please try it report results. {9}What do when potato bugs attack eggplants? Spray with arsenate of lead.

Corrie Brooke tried aloes and found it