Club Minutes: Horticultural Society, 1938

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{4/} The arbor vitia trees at Norwood are not growing as well as usual. Possibly are over fed with too much nitrogen. Be careful about using chicken manure, and do not use it around landscape gardening.

Arsenate of lead mixed with cornmeal is good for bugs on pansies.

The wet season may be responsible for madonna lilies turning yellow. It would be well to take them up + move.

Chrysanthemums + box bushes can be moved now but be sure + use plenty of water when so doing.

Mrlegen + Mrlefume are both good for getting rid of moles.

Andrew Adams was referred to Douglas Farquhar as one who could tell him what to do with his strawberry bed the rest of the year - and Hobart Hutton is a good one for Milton Bancroft to consult about the care of a new asparagus bed. Mary Hutton wanted to know what was the limit to the number of phones on a Farmers telephone line. It was thought a good question to ask the Community Council to take up.

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and we shall hope to hear from them. Readers for next time - Andrew Adams & Emma J. Stabler. Adjourned to meet at "Ten Oaks" on 5 July, "The Highlands" having asked to exchange with them. The gardens at Mt. Airy were much admired and especially lovely was the trellis covered with blooming roses skirting one edge of the lawn. Mariana S. Miller Secretary.

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Ten Oaks 7 - 5 - '38 - The Horticultural was called to order by the president on July 5th on the lawn at Ten Oaks under the noble trees that give the place its name.

The reading & adoption of the minutes of the last meeting was followed by Emma Stabler's article on "Diplomacy in the Garden" - It told how the feminine gardner can work with the masculine member in a diplomatic way so as to get him to do the things that might cause irritation on his part or actual refusal to do them.

Our host was the other reader & gave us interesting excepts from Dr. Stout's book on "Day Lilies", he being a recognized authority on the subject.

Andrew commenced breeding Lilies 4 years ago & now has 50 varieties of his own in bloom & when we took our walk

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we were asked to note one that was specially marked & suggest a suitable name for what he will call the Horticultural Lily. He considers them most valuable for the garden, being easy to raise, with no pests, thriving in sun or shade, wet or dry weather. Isabel Wesley called our attention to the advertisement in "Better Homes & Gardens" of the apparatus for raising plants with-out soil. She also expressed their appreciation of our admitting the "Yardley" family into our membership. Forethought, as usual, gave a long list of "do's & don'ts" for the gardens at this season. The display of vegetables & fruits proved many gardens were flourishing in spite of the shortage of rain which was shown by the report of the meteorologist.

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In the Community Council report they asked for a vote as to a proposed change in the Bylaws to allow the dropping of the July or August meeting. We approved the change if thought best & voted to omit the August meeting this year.

Questions -

The little white specks around the roots of plants are probably plant lice: water with nicotine or Black leaf "40."

If peonies have root rot, they should be taken up & moved & before planting again put bordeaine mixture on them: this can be done in August or September. September is also a good time to move regal lilies, but is is best not to take all up at once.

The roots of lilies forced for house blooming are not worth keeping.

It is probably flea beetles