Horticultural Society

H/7/1904 -1Riverside July 12th 1904 noon 85°

The meeting was called to order by John Bentley in the absence of the President. We were late in beginning our work as a thunderstorm with hard rain delayed many of the members. Owing to the death of our member Mr. Harry W. Davis this meeting was held near the middle of the month. instead of the first.

The minutes were read and with some alteration approved. Readers of selected articles

1st Sue Thomas read "A woman's hardy garden." Prepare by digging out two feet deep, put in manure and layers of soil alternately till full

2nd Annie Kirk had not heard of her appointment. Volunteer E.S. Goldings read of "Poison Ivy." advised to neutralize the poison by an early application of vinegar. A friend had suggested to her that our society should appoint a "Poison ivy day," and make a business of destroying it. Some members

H/7/1904 -2approved but no day was appointed.

Dr. Kirk read an article on "Pride which goeth before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall" His strawberries, gooseberries, currants, and raspberries, to which he had given great attention and much time had failed!

Forethought, began with a tribute to our departed member H. W. Davis, quoting one of his friends who said "those who knew him best loved him best."

In the garden keep up the war on weeds, set out celery, plow where early crops have been gathered, make a last planting of corn not later than the 20th, Sow turnip seed and set out late cabbage. Keep flower garden clean and begin preparations for house plants.

Poultry. Mahlon Kirk lost 145 chickens by weasels and rats and killed five weasels. C.F. Brooke gave a remedy for gapes which has acted like a charm with his chickens.

Exhibits were abundant and very fine in vegetables fruits and flowers.

H/7/1904 -3Alloway, Tomatoes, onions, cabbage potatoes, cucumbers & flowers

Avalon, Potatoes, sweet corn, beets Lia beans, cymbling, cabbage snap beans, apples and flowers

Cloverley, tomatoes, beets, raspberries plums, cucumbers, cabbage, peas, beans, potatoes, corn, carrots and celery.

Fair Hill, Radishes, cymblings, wax beans, cabbae, beets, onions potatoes, tomatoes, corn, Flowers

Falling Green, Lima and snap beans, beets, cabbage, corn, cymbling cucumbers, peas, onions and tomatoes.

Rockland, Cabbage, cymblings, potatoes tomatoes, onions, beets, corn and cucumbers

Rock Spring, Cabbage, cauliflower, beets, corn, string beans, tomatoes, cymblings, apples, plums peaches and Nasturtiums.

Woodburn, Cabbage, beans, peas, potatoes, salsify, carrots, beets, tomatoes Early apples, delightful for cooking, ready now, Tree a profuse

H/7/1904 -4and yearly bearer

corn, peas, beets, cucumbers, spinach, potatoes, cymblings, onions, apples, plums, raspberries and flowers.

Avoca, potatoes, onions, cucumbers & flowers [Sadie] Haviland, fine beans.

Unfinished business A.G. Thomas is not paid for the secretary's book.

Questions.

1. Miss Colt asks about putting salt on asparagus to kill weeds? Put on two handsful to a step. One says make the ground white with it. in the fall.

2. A visitor having raised lilacs from slips under glass jars, wants to know if they should be kept under the jars all winter? Advised to take off the jars

3. How late plant cabbage for winter? July 20th. Nearer to the 15th is approved by most.

4. When trim raspberries and how much? Cut out all the old canes and leave the new, which will be the bearing canes next year. about six inches apart.

5. What the best time to lay grape vine

H/7/1904 -5cuttings? Some think now would be a good time. Try different times

6. What varieties of cabbage best? Curled drumhead, Savoy and Flat Dutch

7. What do with a bulb bed. Buy new hyacinths and tulips. The modern bulbs dont last so well as those raised 30 years ago, which are still fine at some places.

8. When should the white garden lily, Lilium candidum be transplanted? No answer

9. Can English walnuts be grafted on black walnut successfully? No answer

10. Sue Thomas complained of a new disease among her chickens, a yellow growth back of the windpipe? Canker treat as gapes and use phenyle.

11. A visitor has lost many chickens by their going blind. We could give her no remedies, not knowing the cause

Corrie Brookes experience with chickens has been very satisfactory. She kept them in a shed with sides of wire net, a muslin curtain to let down, when too cold. They were kept up until two months old, too big for gapes and crows, and fed

H/7/1904 -6. cracked corn and wheat. Of 190 she lost but 20

A guest brought a shrub in bloom, flowers purple, also the leaf of a tree, for which wanted names. No on knew them.

Can our native pink orchid, cyprepedium be raised pots and made to bloom in winter? A florist might manage it.

The rain prevented our inspection of the gardens. Our hostess told the President, she had moved her Garden to a new spot and the result is most satisfactory; a better garden than for years.

H/8/1904 -3Unfinished business Paying for our new book.

New business, Janet Miller introduced the subject of an Exhibition this fall such as we used to have. The meeting of members of the various Societies, to exhibit fruits, grains, etc. to be sent to St. Louis, had been so interesting, and agreeable that some of our members and members of the clubs, hoped for a revival of the exhibitions, in which all the neighborhood was interested, A vote was taken; there was but one negative. After much discussion, a committee was appointed to communicate with the other societies and decide upon the kinds of Exhibits and fix a date for it. Committee Janet Miller, Ellen Farquhar, Robert Miller, John Bentley and Dr. Kirk.

The President read a letter from Asa Stabler on preservatives for fruits and vegetables to be sent to the State meeting.

Questions

1. How has it been with tomatoes as regards blight? It has been bad some places.

H/8/1904 -4one member had 102 tomatoes on a vine affected with it.

2. How destroy the striped bug? Try a corn-cob soaked in petroleum or tar put on stones under the plants

3. When plant spinach for Spring use? Broad cast in September and cover with straw before freezing weather

A magazine offered a reward for the number of feathers on a chicken. It was found there were on an average 8137.

4. Dr. Kirk brought a specimen of blight on an apple tree, will the tree recover advised to cut off diseased parts

5. Should an azalea which has been in the same pot two years be repotted? It can remain in the same pot four or five years.

A member described a disease among chickens, which was pronounced "limber neck"

One member who had been much troubled with moles had none this summer; at some places the potato beetles were scarce and some had no striped bugs. I was

H/8/1904 -1Rockland

August 2nd 1904

Near the appointed hour the meeting was called to order. The minutes were read and corrected. The readers for this meeting had not been appointed. Volunteer Janet Miller read from The Country [Gen?] [Ulman?] A remedy for [gaped?] in Chickens. The author thinks they are caused by head vermin. Volunteer by Frances Stabler, a description of a new potato of superior quality, Eily Massy read of a new rhubarb with flavor like strawberries or raspberries.

Forethought interesting and instructive and by the same author a notice of the gardens at Riverside, she being the only member who had seen them before the rains which prevented the rest from going out Exhibits, Edgewood, Cabbage, sweet corn, Lima beans, tomatoes and cucumbers,

Tanglewood, corn, potatoes, Lima bean cucumbers, caluflower, squash and tomatoes.

Woodburn, apples and plums.

H/8/1904 -2Norwood, corn, Tomatoes, beets, [cymblings?], salsify and flowers

Four Hill, corn, tomatoes Lima beans, cucumbers, onion, cabbage, and flowers

Riverside, Flowers.

The Highlands, salsify, potatoes, corn, squash, tomatoes, cabbage, Lima beans, cauliflower and cucumbers.

The Cedars, corn, Lima beans, [cymblings?] cucumbers, potatoes, tomatoes and egg-plant.

Rock Spring, cabbage, corn, [cymbling?], cucumbers, parsley, plums, apples, peaches, Lima beans, tomatoes, potatoes.

Brook Grove, onion [sets?], tomatoes, potatoes, cymblings, parsnips, beets, cabbage, cucumbers, salsify, corn, Lima and string beans, apples and flowers.

[Garden?], Roses.