Club Minutes: Horticultural Society, 1939

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April, this year, you might call the "Hollywood" month, very temperamental, the 9th, Easter Sunday, the mercury was 34° with 1/3 of an inch of snow. The 10th,- Easter Monday, the mercury jumped up to 78° and the next day to 81°. Two days later, the 13th, the mercury dropped to 32°. The 25th, mercury reached 90°. The 26th, we had quite a thunder storm & the remainder of the month was cold & rainy, mercury in the low 40^s each night.

May came in clear & crisp, mercury 42°, but within a week the mercury was up to the 90^s:- after the 10th however, it dropped back into the 40^s each night for another week & finally on the 31st, reached it's maximum of 95° the highest so far this season.

Your retiring Meteorologist, Henry Janney Nichols.

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Tanglewood July 7 - 1939 -

In a more peaceful atmosphere than the 4th of July would have been. The Horticultural meet at Tanglewood on the 7th. The meeting was held on the shady lawn. After the minutes were approved Roberta Adams read a delightful description of the beauty of Hawaii, and the various customs peculiar to the islands. Flowers, pine apples & Cocoanuts in abundance. No docks for landing, no bill boards. Elza Thomas & Mariana Miller read a letter concerning the camp on the grounds of Dorothy Canfield Fisher. where Cornelia Thomas has been asked to spend two weeks with friends.

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Mary Magruder brought an old photograph of the Horticultural members taken at Riverside nearly 60 years ago.

Isabella Wesley told of keeping cut flowers for many days She followed the suggestion of cutting the stems after the flowers have been put in water & it worked perfectly.

Forethought Cut dahlia plants to 2 stalks Madonna lilies should be divided after blooming. Water rose buds at intervals for better blooms. Lift tulip bulbs & keep in dry place for fall planting. Nicotine is bad or good? for aphids. Sow turnip seeds anytime this month. Feed hardy chrystemums now. Sheep manure is good.

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Rather than cut crab grass ofthe to get rid of it, let blue grass grow to drown it out. The Com. Council report was largely concerning zoning Mary Magruder asked of the Village Improvement Com. If the Council asked advice about ridding the roads of trash. A container in the village might answer this need, & friends would be needed to buy one. Andrew Adams boy scouts are interested in picking up trash on this road. No weather report as both of our weather men were off duty - having provided a good day at last.

Questions Tanglewood rhubarb has not done well. Probably too much

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manure was put-in when the plants were small. Lofton Wesley has good results. He plants in the fall putting the manure in bottom of deep trenches.

Fred told of killing moles by watching for the earth to move & shooting. Has gotten 7. Andrew Adams is anxious to locate a short day lily - 5 or 6 in. - an old variety. He wants it for hybridizing. He invited any one to visit his day lily beds - 8 to 10 in the morning when they are at their best, but he has bred some to open at 5 p.m. & remain all night. Fred McReynolds wants the name of the fine double raspberry at Mt. Airy. Francis Miller was advised