Club Minutes: Horticultural Society, 1938

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Glenlander-April 5-1938

"Take a dozen little clouds And a patch of blue: Take a million rain drops, As many sun beams, too.

Take a host of violets, A wandering little breeze And myriads of little leaves Dancing on the treesze.

Then ring them well together, In the very quickest way, Showers, sunshine, bird & flowers, And you'll have an April day."

And so it was on April 4th when we gathered at Glenlander for the first meeting of the Horticultural for 1938 with an un broken circle of members. They were called to-gethr by the president after lunch & the minutes of Oct. '37 meeting were read and ordered recorded without change.

Mary Huttons article from the current number of "Better Homes & Garden" was a very comprehensive one on the growing of animals which return such satisfactory results for the care given them & earn the

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2/ planted so as to furnish blooms all through the season.

Fred McReynolds read of sowing seeds in flats in the house to starts plants for bedding later on + gave some good points as to preparaation of soil, watering the seed through tissue papet etc.

Fore-thought told of another poison for moles - Mrlogen by name & we wonder how it differs from mrlefume of which we had last year. She also suggested setting out dahlias as soon as all danger of frost is over & first gladiolis bulbs as soon as the ground can be worked. Divide perennials early & hardy chrysanthemums should be divided every year.

The poultry report gave 6162 chicks as compared with 6600 a year ago.

An order of business for the first meeting of the year was followed out by reading the ByLaws and Resolutions of the Society.

Our attention was called to there being only 14 places of active members. Avalon & Riverside

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\3 being honorary ones, and as we have no names on the waiting list, a committee of Elza B. Thomas, Margaret C. Bancroft the Secretary was appointed to consider the subject of membership and filling the two vacancies now existing.

The annual meeting of the Community Council coming this month, we named Fred H. McReynolds to represent us for the next year and Harry J. Nichols is to present the following names to take the place of those members whose terms expire this year. Josiah H. Jones - Brookeville distc Richard H. Lansdale - Olney distc G. Rust Canby - Colesville distc

We are glad to be able to file with our records the meteorologists synopsis of weather conditions of this past winter and thus far this spring.

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Several members brought displays of fruits, vegetables & flowers.

Ten Oaks had from 18 to 20 named varieties of narcissus & West Edgewood had a tray of wonderful good things to eat but could not lay claim to having raised them!

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Questions -

Our hostess had no question but told of a very satisfactory electric border they were using & had only lost one out of the 50 chickens they had put out,, and had the same success last year.

The 1500 Scotch pine trees at "Poulus"- appeared to not have survived this winter, even being pronounced dead by a supposedly expert from the Agricultural Department, and they were replaced by 1500 new ones.

But much to the surprise of all concerned, the first lot came to life, & now the question has arisen as to whether they should pay for the last. She will be interested in hearing how it is settled.

It was thought that it was not too early to plant the vegetable gardens.

Rhubarb can be divided in the spring.

Mary Hutton wanted to know what makes chick weed grow