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Club Minutes: Horticultural Society, 1918-1925

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[Catherine?] Thomas was having her first experience in raising broom-corn, she needed advice & was told the best method in drying & preparing it.

Haw many people have plenty of [?] [braus?]? Catherine Janney had them to give away to any one who wanted them, & also sold some. Miss Mary Gilpin & Cousin Kate Thomas have also had a good crop.

Is it too late to use hellebore on a rose bush eaten up with slug? No, always cut off the seed pods.

Rose Gilpin & Charles Brooke both had apples they wished to know to what variety they belonged.

How use nitrate of soda on a celery bed? Sow it on the ground close to the plants & work it in.

Alban Thomas thinks S.S. is "coming up", for the [Brown?] garage seems to have been designed by some foreign architect from the banks of the Nile or elsewhere!

If you cut off holly hocks after they are done blooming, it is said they will bloom again - does any one know about this? If you cut off old seed

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pods, a new bud will come, but does not amount to much.

Mary [?]. [Kirk?] wanted to know if any one had trouble with tomatoes not blooming this year. [Jon Janney?] has.

How long must you keep on watering celery? Several opinions expressed - One say if very dry, it should be watered frequently, & put a lot on when you do. Others never water after it is planted. Alban Thomas waters his every ten years!

Why do you put [salt?] on the asparagus bed? It keep [out?] weeds & helps the plants. When do you put it on? Early in the spring, or even now, it is a salt-water plant, & it is good for it.

We are sorry to learn the black birds are again after the English walnut trees at [Bel?] - others are bothered with the same birds - they are eating the corn at the Highlands.

Mary B. Thomas brought a tooth from a 14 ft. aligator. This was a fine specimen.

How [?] the cherry tree at Edgewood, it looks as if it [was?] dying? Robert

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Miller can tell how to treat it.

Has any one [here?] using asparagus lately? Too late to use it, as it willinjure the bed without a doubt.

Miss Mary Gilpin & Richard Iddings were asked to read at the next meeting.

Adjourned to Edgewood.

The old attractive vine-covered home - Cloverly, that has always stood for hospitality itself, opened wide its door to us on that glorious afternoon, & we were glad to be there.

Our walk over the lawn & into the garden showed us how very successful our hostess has been in keeping her [house?] and home beautiful.

To the left of the lawn we found a new garden [?] [?] patch added since our last meet, where things were in a flourishing condition.

The Sec. was especially pleased with the flagging leading into both gardens. along the side of the new garden were ropws of blooming flowers, which always add a touch of beauty to any spot. We enjoyed a splendid [?] supper on the porch & lawn, & after a social time, we departed.

Lillie B. Stabler Sec.

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Tanglewood

April 6th 1920

OCTOBER 1919

"The world has burnished all too bright, Too gorgeous for the aching sight; God breathed upon it, over night, And lo! The mountains, angel-kissed, Are clothed with-blue October mist

Lovely as amethyst."

Just so, our beautiful summer had faded into a lovely Fall day when we met on Oct 7th at Knowlton.

There is something akin to sadness when the autumn days come round-& especially so was it this last meeting day of our Horticultural, as our friend, Cousin Eliza Brooke, whom we loved so dearly, was lying desperately ill at her home.

Our hearts were heavy, but we tried to do as she wished us to, & so our Pres. called the meeting at the appointed time. The minutes of the previous meeting written by Mariana S. Miller, was read by her & was accepted without change.

Richard Iddings was our first appointed reader for the afternoon, & instead of a

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selected article to read, he told us in a most delightful manner of his recent trip in the North and the South. Had your Sec. a ready brain & a gifted pen, she might have recorded much of this journey over many miles & in many states, but failing in both of their requirements, she will only touch on an item or two. Cousin Richard saw vegetable marrow for the first time - The golden rod was in perfection in Mass, & there was none in the South. From Savannah to the Ga. the country was poor farming country - pines, pines, pines, but the Ga. pines seem to be free of knots. After reaching Ga., he found the outlook better - he was struck with the umbrella trees, & told us they are quick growers, & insects do not trouble them. There is a great account of cotton grown around Greenwood; the picking was just beginning, but owing to the scarcity of help, he felt probably it would not get finished until Jan. He gave a proper description of the cotton gin, & informed us that Crisco was first invented at Greenwood.

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Hulda Janney was the second [appointment?] for the afternoon, & she too gave us a treat in the form of an original article on the old trees of the vacinity.

The information she had collected was most interesting, and the society owes her a vote of thanks for the paper she so well prepared for us. She first called our attention to the old chestnut tree at Cherry Grove, which measured 29 ft. in circumference 60 years ago- & told us of a still larger one at [Auburn?].

"A black walnut tree has [been?] found in Howard Co. which [bears?] walnuts that can be cracked with the [handle?] of a pen knife. They crack but from 50 to 70 per [?] whole halves, & [?] in weight from 40 to 50 per [cut?] [?].

Henry Stabler exhibited a sample of these at a [nut?] show in N.Y., where it won the 1st prize in competition with [s-4?] exhibits- & it [now?] in honor bears his name.

Mention was made of the Bentley Apple, also the Brooke apple, and of the [pear?] tree at Mt. Airy that has been bearing pears for 100 years. "Ar [Mt.?] Olney there is

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a willow tree from the [seviteh?] brought from Napoleon's tomb - and the great honey locust at [Riverton?] was planted by Deborah Lia in her [girlhood?]. The walnuts the cherries, the willows, & the cedars have named many old homesteads. Oakley owes it's name from from the great spreading white oak measuring 125 ft. from tip to tip." In closing she gave us a list of the wonderful trees which we all admire on the lawn of Avalon, there being 25 varieties. - We surely were favored in our selection of "readers" for the Oct. meeting, and with no reflection whatever on former readers, I would say it might be a bright idea to continue these two throughout a season.

As the society is the proud possessor of $4.19, surely we could [send?] Cousin Richard Iddings on many trups, & Sandy Spring can [furnish?] Hulda Hanney with things old, for years to come!

A note from Edith [Green?] said her aunt [Eliza?] had intended writing a long Forethought, but she did not feel able to do itshe sent the following report to the society,

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with her love. I quote it in full.

"My roses do not grow well, I want to give some of the soil to Mr. Van [Horsen?] to see if he can find the trouble. if he should, the Horticultural shall hear what he says. It will soon be time to put vegetables away. Dig [sweet?] potatoes any time. Gather sage. Before frost take cuttings of the [tender?] plants which you want for setting out, early [?] spring. Take up bulbs & [tuberoses?], elephant ear, and Madeira vine, store them when frost touches the plants."

"There's a sunset somewhere, gold & red, If I go on climbing, just ahead, Past that boulder maybe, round the bend, I may find the sunset." - It was proposed a note of love & appreciation of this report should be sent to the Forethought, by the Sec.

Dorothy Brooke was asked to act as assist. sec. There was a beautiful display of flowers, & the collection of vegetables was better than the previous meeting at Edgewood. Tho' both the Sept. & Oct.

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specimens were far below the Horticultural standard.

Under new business, Dorothy Brooke gave a graphic statement of conditions at the County [Alms house?] & Mrs Davis & Mrs [Massey?] were appointed to help on the committee to awaken the people of the county in this regard.

Mary M. Stabler was asked to attend to buying vases.

Questions

Should the ground be made rich when setting out the [plants?] now, instead of spring? Manure the plants after transplanting.

Is it better to cut out the old wood from a rose bush now or leave it until spring? Trim out in the fall, there is so much work to be done in the spring.

Is it too soon to plant paper narcissus for Christmas? Wight weeks is time enough

Does any one know about the honey-dew melon? not very much known about it, Mrs. Massey said she had eaten it recently for the first time.

Has any one cucumbers in brine for sale?

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Mary Hutton has some, it is thought.

Margaret Bancroft reported Norwood had great success with celery raised by directions of the Horticultural. Cousin Eliza Moore sent a message of love to the society.

Charlotte Cresson sent yellow [?] plants for distribution. separate the bulbs & plant one in [?] small ones together.

What should you do withDorothy Perkins rose? Cut it all down but a few of this year's shoots, dig a little old fashioned manure around it, slug shot & kerosene [emulsion?] are good for it.

Uncle Fred says it is a [mistaken?] idea to fertilize asparagus in the fall, better do it in the spring - most cases use commercial fertilizer.

Anna Nesbit and Mariana Miller were appointed readers.

Adjourned until April, the place of meeting being decided by the committee.

It was indeed a pleasure to meet with our delightful hostess at Knowlton. She, as always, gave us a warm welcome, & the beautiful October day added an

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