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the other worms which lodge in the windpipe from drinking impure water

1st Reader Patty Hopkins read an article on improvement in wild fruits by cultivation. 2nd Reader Cornelia, very sorry she forgot her appointment. Readers for next meeting Corrie M. Brooke and Roger B. Farquhar

Questions 1 Ellen Farquhar brought some strawberries to show their imperfection and ask the cause, which no one could explain. Others complained of the same trouble. 2nd Is there a general failure of fruit as at Rockland? Yes, with a few exceptions. A few have Bartlet pears, and some have a few apples.

3 Which are the three best strawberries? Crescent seedling, Sharpless, Wilson, Mount Vernon Cumberland

4 What remedy for currant worm? Helebore is used also unslaked lime and ashes

5 Have asparagus beds generally been injured by a little bug resembling a "lady bug"? Nearly all have been injured.

6 What should been done to grape vines which were trimmed early and have made a luxuriant growth since; Cut back to the fruit

7 Any remedy for mildew on roses? Sprinkle with suphur.

8 Is it best to leave a mulch on a hedge planted this spring? Fertilize and cultivate

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regarded as a desirable thing for us to do and the appointment was left with the president, who later selected Eliza Brooke Robert H. Miller Corrie M. Brooke and Mary Magruder. Frances Stabler was appointed to collect ten cents from each family for the printing of labels etc.

Specimens

Brooke Grove, corn, Lima beans, celery, sweet potatoes, parsnips, salsify, carrots pears and apples The Cedars, Flowers and egg-plant Riverton, Flowers, squash, beans and pears Tanglewood, Flowers sweet potatoes chestnuts and tomatoes Falling Green, Seed cymbling lettuce and corn Edgewood, Flowers Rock Spring, Egg-plant, Pumpkin, peppers Lima beans cabbage and turnips Alloway, Roses Avalon, Flowers, sweet potatoes & tomatoes Rockland, Flowers, tomatoes, carrots, parsnips and gumbo Mt. Welcome, ripe raspberries, squash seed potatoes.

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followed. They were adopted.

We listened to an article of Robert Miller's selection- from a paper published by the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, on the Spraying of Cherry Trees to control the cherry leaf-spot. At a previous meeting mention was made of the blight that had attacked our cherry trees, & this article seemed to solve the problem of further trouble if we followed its advice. This is a most serious disease affecting the foliage of cherries in the eastern U.S., & fruit growers have tried to find a remedy for it. The dept. of agriculture tells us these sprayings with lime-sulphur solution or Bordeaux mixture will control the disease.

The first application should be made as soon as the petals fall, the second, about three weeks later, & the third, immediately after the fruit is picked.

Corrie M. Brooke read in place of Hulda Janney, as she could not be with us. This bright little bit on Flowers & Chickens by Mrs. Chas. A. Smith, gave the members a new idea- for it told what seemed an

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now generally used, would seem to be the proper one. The strawberry of the gardens is cultivated, but it certainly is not "artificial". cultivated pearls have been produced in the Orient for many years, + chapters on them may be formed in books on the subject, but it has been unusually easy to distinguish_ them from the uncultivated variety Lately, however, owing to the ingenuity + skill of a Japanese firm, they are grown under such conditions that they exactly resemble the wild or uncultivated pearl, + it is this that has made a stir among the dealers.

Our second reader, Corrie M. Brooke, was not present also, so Mrs. House kindly read two interesting selections made by Mrs. Tilton. The first one was_ When Room Plants Become Leggy.

"A very good way of dealing with rubber plants, + similar room plants that have grown spindly, or leggy, as it is called, is to cut a small part in half with an old saw. Then at about the middle of the stem make a long slanting cut upward half way through.

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In Memory of Frederick Stabler

In the passing on of our loved & honored member, Frederick Stabler, the Horticultural Society has sustained a very real loss.

He did not join our ranks until late in life, but after becoming a member, his advice, always modestly given, was most valuable in our meetings, & many mooted questions were referred to him to settle. A love of out-ofdoors & deep interest in all growing things, gave weight to his judgments.

His life of ninety years was well spent, but it is sad to think that another link to "the days that are no more" has broken, & that we shall not again see his bright rosy face, or receive his cordial greeting.

Corrie M. Brooke.