Club Minutes: Horticultural Society, 1938

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{4/} advised to put the pot in the ground, first putting stone in the hole + spray with

Mrs. Young, a guest, asked how to raise sweet peas - If not planted early + deep, till up from time to time + mulch.

Helen Farquhar wanted to know if a sitting duck would take ducklings if she had hatched none. Try putting them under the duck at night.

Emeleen Hill said they had quite a problem on their hands trying to get some good soil to stay on some land they had recently bought next to about 12 ft higher than gardens in the city (Washington) it is naturally rotten rock on which fine trees grow, but they want grass + other things as well. Have added loads of rich earth that promptly washes away = how can they keep it there. Not much help was given we fear + it would seem all they can do is try, try again.

Readers for June meeting Mary Tilton + Frederick L. Thomas Adjourned to Mt. Airy on June 7th Mariana S. Miller sec. There is always much of

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interest to be seen in our walk at Clermont with its hundreds upon hundred of chickens, thousands upon thousands of vegetable plants ready to be set out, rows upon rows evergreens + shrubbery in the nursery = but we lingered longest by the sunken garden filled with blooms of great varieties even to "the flower in the crannied wall".

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Mt. Airy. June 7^th 1938 On June 7^ththe Horticultural met at Mt. Airy with a very full attendance, "Innercauld" being the only place with-out a representative. After adoption of minutes of the last meeting, Mary Tilton as 1st reader described in part the experiences of two young people who inherited a piece of property, and their re-action to the process of filling some of the trees standing on it made a pleasant reading.

Elza Thomas read for Fred, of the many varieties of maple trees in this country and the characteristics of some such as the sugar maple being good for street planting; Norway maple has fine folliage but is short lived. Red-soft or swamp maple bright foliage in the fall. The manstola maple or box elder is not supposed to be desirable, but for a quick grower to get shade it is of some use. An interesting contributed article by Cornelia Bentley told of the Gingo tree that scientists find has been in this country 150 000 000 years, having been imported from China. The leaves were originally wedge

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{2/}shaped but now are two lobed and kidney shaped, though one with the original shape is standing near th White House and must be a throw back over a vast expanse of time.

Fore thought gave an innumerable number of good suggestions for spraying and dusting flowers and vegetables, sowing some perennial seeds now as well as early vegetables again.

The poultry report was 5016 chickens and two ducks, as compared with 5709 chickens June a year ago.

There was a wonderfully good exhibit of vegetables & fruits and lovely flowers and a most attractive display of ferns from Glenlander where Mr. Hurry has counted 37 varieties.

It was moved & carried that this secretary cast the ballot for the admission of Lofton & Isabel Wesley into membership in the Horticultural & we are glad to wlecome them as members.

The Community Council voted to remain a member of the Civic Federation with an increase of duss dues to $5.00 which was ordered paid.

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The weather in May as reported by our Meteorologist was rather unusual in that it was cool through out the month with frost & ice in some places in the neighborhood.

Questions - Our hostess was advised to try something besides bordeaux if it did not prove effective in controlling the pest for which it was used. Massie's dust & sulphur have been tried with good results.

Emelien Hill reported some of their pines were dying & on investigation it was thought the rocks were coming to the surface & roots were root-bound & they would probably loose some more: what can be done about it, no one seemed to know.

There are some varieties that grow on rocks in Montana & perhaps they would thrive here.

Richard Iddings had spaded up an old chicken yard & could not account for lettuce being good at one end & "peatered out" at the other while lettuce radishes were the other way around! - (See minutes at Norwood a year ago about rhubarb).