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H/9/1919 -1-

Knowlton
October 7th 1919

The Horticultural met on the afternoon of
Sept 7th at Edgewood, and as our Secretary
was one of the hostesses, we felt it right
that she should be excused from the
duties of her office, and it was only when
no one seemed willing to take her place
that Mariana S. Miller consented to record
the happenings of the afternoon, but
knowing full well she could not make
the interesting, spicy minutes of the
regular secretary whose minutes of the
last meeting were read & adopted without
correction.

The first reader, Mary E. Gilpin, told of the
roads & planting of trees along them that
already had been commenced in France in
memory of her soldiers. The ground at
Viney Ridge can never be turned again
into agricultural use, so pitted is it
with shell-holes & craters made by mines,
so the Canadian Government is going to
plant there Canadian maples & make
of it a vast memorial park. And so