Horticultural Society

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Community House Oct 7/30

The Horticultural srciety Society Asssembled at The Cedars Sep. 2. with the [two?] households as hosts. [not?] a full membership present Several guests added interest to our meeting.

The usual order of business [was?] the appointed readers gave us choice selections, Cornelia Bently read a beautiful story of a peasant [?] of [France?] who loved her life on the [sloping?] hills of her native home [filling?] the gardens, transplanting, cultivating, she found comfort from [down?] in her work calling the [?] [?] soil the [mother?] Everlasting. [Elzer?] read from Popular Science [monthly?] of a [solution?] announced in the

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[help?] of agriculture as careful in crop production, the [?] of California through the east of a chemical plant fill, adminstered to plants grown in shallow [tanks?] of water, cereal and vegetable crops are made to thrive under desert conditions of heat and [soil?] and lack of humidity. the [level?] of this new [development?] consists of combination [doese?] of the [seven?] elements of plant [?], nitrogen Phospherous magnesia [?] Potassium Sulpher and Calcium. There [were?] no Volunter Articles. [?] [Green?] read [?] wholesome advice for Forethought [stressing?] a clean up of [?] garden in Autumn. Ass Sec Mary Stabler [?] of a scant exhibit, tomatoes and eggplants being finer that other exhibits. Several members showed lima beans. [Name?] as a

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question had corn [wheat?] showed [poor?] polination caused by the intense heat. [His?] complaint seemed general, although some members reported a [better?] [plled?] more normal crop.

Miss Sutch told of a Phlox that had appeared in her garden - [experimental?] station and [?] [from?] the variety. Cornelia Bently [asked?] about trees for her lawn, she was advised to get them at College Park. Can [you?] [prune?] asparagus. Yes any time. Cut off the tops - Cousin [Corrie?] told of a broken [circle?] of [mushrooms?] in the lawn at Brooke Grove also [she?] reported tomatoes [from?] plants [set?] out in August. Henry Nichols told of a [black?] bug that appeared in his garden. A sucking bug. This reminds the Sec. there has

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been no mention of the Bean beetle or the Japanese beetle this season.

Because of illness Anna Farquhar cannot have the Oct. meeting at Invercauld. Suggested we meet at the Community House. This was approved and the Sec was [instructed?] to write Anna our [regrets?] and sympathy at her illness, and [absence?] from us. The meeting adjourned to meet at The Community House with a [box?] luncheon [?].

The gardens at The Cedars [like?] many others showed a [brave?] struggle to exist [in?] spite of the continual condition our Society has had at each meeting a [good?] exhibit - [he?] [?] the [fields?], the lack of water and [seating?] the [stern?] reality of existing conditions. Before [we?] assemble in April 1931 may the [world?] be full of promise.

Mary M. Nichols Sect'y.