Club Minutes: Horticultural Society, 1935

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H/4/1935-2-

Tanglewood - April 2 -'35

The first meeting of the Horticultural of 1935 was called to order after lunch at Tanglewood by Henry J. Nichols with Helen N. Farquhar acting as secretary.

Minutes of the meeting at Falling Green in October '34 were read & adopted followed by a letter from the guest speaker at that time, Dr. W. R. Beattie of the Agricultural Department who apparently enjoyed the meeting so much as we did in having him & Mrs. Beattie with us.

The reading on the Constitution and By-Laws preceded the election of officers for the next two years and as the President & Secretary who had served us so acceptably for several terms asked to be released. Clarence Hurry accepted the Presidency & Mariana S. Miller the office of secretary - treasurer with Robert H. Miller Jr. again Vice-President.* * Edith B. Green to confirm A message of appreciation for his faithful service and excellent minutes was directed to be sent to Mary M. Nichols.

We received with regret the resignation of Lena Weld as a member. It was moved and carried that we

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vote in the name of Andrew and Roberta Adams to fill the vacancy this caused and they were duly elected & the secretary asked to notify them of our pleasure in welcoming them as members.

Cornelia H. Bentley as an appointed reader gave us extracts from a letter from Rebecca T. Miller describing in part the beautiful tropical grounds in Hawaii, and she also read from the Reader's Digest a disertation on Nature Study by one whose knowledge of & interest in same was rather limited as for instance, he claimed only to know two kinds of birds - a crow & a hen!

Helen N. Farquhar , the other reader, gave advice as to growing our own plants from good seeds covering larger ones from two to four times their diameter & smaller ones broadcast with very light covering.

As usual the Forethought gave timely suggestions for the early spring work.

The weather always being such a varied and uncertain quantity, it was thought it might be of interest to keep some record of it as had been done some past years when we had a meteorologist. So Henry J. Nichols was asked to serve as such.

The assistant secretary reported vegetables from his place & flowers from six =

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H/4/1935-42) This being the meeting at which to appoint a delegate to the Annual meeting of the Community Council, Hobart Hutton was asked to go & name his own alternate if he could not attend, and present the names of Wm Gilpin. Irene K. Miller and Granville Thompkins as our choice for members from the three districts for three years. Frederick L. Thomas was named as our representative to the Council for the coming year.

Questions Our hostess was told that this was a good time to plant asparagus. Fred wanted to know why some English ivy was more winter-killed than others & should it be trimmed. Cut out the dead branches & it will put out fresh growth.

Helen Hallowell said they felt they had had great success in keeping down rats & mice by use of the commercial poison wheat.

No one could tell Lillie Stabler what a partridge pea is like.

Fred McReynolds could sow any beans in his garden to plow under & put in rye & vetch in the fall to improve the soil. Better not attempt to renovate an old asparagus

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H/4/1935-5. bed but not use it until a new one is ready to to cut after setting out now.

Jessie was not given much encouragement in methods to get rid of chick weed & ground ivy. Plow deep if you can.

It is better not to cut rhubarb the first year after it is planted. Raspberries can be fertilized now. Evergreens can be set out successfully in the spring but fall is considered a better season.

The executive committee had not met to make the lists of places of meeting & readers for the year, so Helen Hallowell & the secretary were asked to prepare such lists.

A visit to the garden showed it was in good shape to produce the fruits, vegetables & flowers that we know will be forth-coming later on. In the conservatory were many more blooming plants that had evidently responded to the care given them through the winter.

Adjourned with the next meeting place to be announced later

Mariana S. Miller Sec.

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H/5/1935-1Cloverly - 7 May 1935

The hospitable doors of Cloverly were thrown open to us for the May meeting of the Horticultural and at the request of the hostesses we assembled for lunch with the business session following it. Minutes of last meeting adopted as read.

Helen Hallowell's selected article advised sowing enogh seed to allow for thinning & transplanting before the plants if an artificial season has to be made, soak the ground around them in the morning & move the plants in the evening.

Lena Stabler read some interesting facts about lilacs which seem to have been found first in the Balkan states & were brought here originally from England.

To secure a full bloom we were told it could be produced by stripping off all of the leaves after the early bloom; and while it was suggested that some one could try it, after hearing the plea William Bancroft for letting Nature

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