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H/4/1937 -1-

Tanglewood
6 April 1937.

As we opened our first meeting
of the Horticultural for 1937 at
Tanglewood on April 6, our thoughts
turned to the member we have
lost since last we met and
Margaret Bancroft read a fitting
tribute to Alice T. Stabler whose
bright presence we will miss
from our meetings. A copy of
this paper will be given her
family and one kept with these minutes.

The reading & adoption of the
minutes of October 1936 was followed
by Mary Brooke reading of
some of the strange arts in self
defense as practiced by animals
when caught in tight places.
They appear to have a most intense
love of life & in the matter of self
protection often assume forms that
are startling in their subtle artisttry.

Helen T. Hallowell article called
attention to the fact of garden soil
in perennial beds after a wet winter
becomes packed & needs loosening
up with-out disturbing the roots of