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would do to put hot lye around fruit trees, or how to get
rid of the asparagus pest or in spite of 300 meetings we
still have something to learn.
To prepare ground for roses where the earth is very
rich, it was suggested to dig sods and insert them to give
the roses new earth.
For a quick growing ornamental tree at Edgewood
suggested. Carolina poplar weeping birch sweet gum
elm, American linder and pin oak.
Cabbage had been kept with pretty good success
at different places some buried entirely in trenches
some covered with fodder and leaves. At Sunnyside
it kept remarkably well land was on the north side of the house
where the sun did not touch it and fodder 4 ft above it.
No one could tell how to get rid of a "fairy ring" at
Tanlgewood, which is a bare place in the grass, growing
larger each year. We had just been told of a laldy
who had planted [illegible] and the [illegible] [illegible] found then
all upside down with roots in the air and following
this came the spooky intelligence of a fairy ring!
The only practical suggestion was to go out at the
minutes past one in the night and try to see the fairies
in the dance.
Adjourned to Tanglewood May 2nd
Hallie J. Bentley