Club Minutes: Horticultural Society, 1936

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much wood ashes around them. Peat moss & plenty of water, also manure are recommended.

Nicotine is suggested to kill aphis on Mary Stabler's coral honeysuckle.

Ground hogs have enjoyed two crops of peas at Florence Bond's. Albert Stabler says the hogs can be caught in large traps like those for rabbits, or may be shot.

Many do not take the suckers from sweet corn.

Dust brocoli with arsenate of lead & lime to kill cabbage worms on it.

Phlox should be treated with Massey dust for blight. Sulphur dust is also good. Cut off old blooms & the plants will blossom again in the fall.

Alice Farquhar, our newly acquired member after some years of absence was told that cedar rust or blight does not necessarily kill apple trees, but retards growth and bearing.

Rebecca Iddings Small was toldlemon oil is effective in ridding plants of red spiders & other pests.

Few gardens have been visited so far by the Mexican [?]

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but Mr. Harry's beans have been riddled.

Vine berries are used for jelly and eating raw.

The meeting adjourned to Ten Oaks with Emma Stabler & Robt. H. Miller Jr. as readers.

Helen S. Hallowell Secretary Pro-tem.

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Ten Oaks, Aug 4 - 1936.

For the third time this year the Horticultural met (for 2 their first meeting) (at the home of new members) as on August 4th we were welcomed by Andrew and Roberta Adams at Ten Oaks.

Robert H. Miller Jr. presided since owing to the illness Mrs. Hurry, the president was absent, & the secretary was asked to write to Mr. Hurry expressing our great sympathy for them during the anxious days through which they have passing.

Emma Stabler selected article gave an Englishman's views on laying out & making a garden. We all know

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2) by first hand knowledge or hear-say knowledge how lovely the gardens are in England, but we also know that climatic conditions thus are very favorable for the growth of all plants & vegetation.

The other reader, Mary R. N. Miller, in Robert's place, told of the use of lath - lenses to protect plants from sun and heat, & in a measure change the climate so that the ?ist flowers can be safely brought through the best summer days.

They can be built at comparatively little expense and made places of real beauty, & interest, yet made to comply with the rule laid down by Pope who said "Any thing artificial in a garden should be done with commn sense."

The Forethought as usual gave some helpful

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hints, & the display of specimens from the members gardens were excellent. The one from Tanglewood with 21 or 22 different things being worthy of special note.

The Community Council's report was very full & interesting & we were glad to hear that John Weld was going to take the place of Robert Gilmore (resigned) as head of the local Boy Scouts & the secretary now asked to tell him the same.

Questions

Jessie McReynolds wondered if something could be done in this way of planting around Sharp St. Church & she & Mary Magruder were asked to make inquiry and report at the next meeting.

Fall is a good time to transplant evergreens though it can be done satisfactorily in