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H/4/1947-1-

Alloway April 1947

The 1947 season opened with a lovely meeting at
Alloway on April first, no foolin'. The very
atmosphere breathed new life, hope, garden-planting
time, -in short, Spring.

Isabel Wesley, secretary pro tem, read the
minutes.

Jessie McReynold's article about the tomato
late blight recommened several steps for control
of the blight: destroy old tomato vines; plant new
blight-free plants. 'Do not
plant tomatoes next to fields in
which potatoes are grown, or in
fields were potatoes were grown last
year. The tomato plants should be
spaced farther apart for better air
circulation and for ease in spraying.
A fungicide should be applied before
plants are infected. Dithane
Z78 will give good control, or sprays
containing 0.2 pounds of metallic copper
per 10 gallons, or a 7 percent
fixed copper dust may be used.'

The Farm Bureau spray program was next presented
by Robert Miller. For a nominal sum they will spray
flies with DDT, weeds with 2-4D, give a fruit tree
spray service, and are promoting a county-wide
spraying to save the corn crop from the Japanese
beetle.

Lena Stabler read Mrs. Englund's interesting
letter from Stockholm, in which she described the
gorgeous flower displays there during the month-long
Christmas season.

Poetry as well as practical garden suggestions
may always be found in Elza Thomas' Forethought Notes.
We're all the better, she wrote and read, for making
something fine grow, whether it is a flower of the
mind, or a flower whose roots are in the homely
door-yard earth. Good advice followed regarding the
relative cheapness of the best seed, regarding lawn
care, strawberries, peas, sweet peas, roses, budgeting
garden time for getting the most enjoyment, and more.

Rather than accept the Bancrofts' resignation,
the meeting voted them honorary members, with the
hope that they could come with us again soon.
Robert Miller was appointed to the Membership
Committee, with Mary Hutton and Helen Farquhar.

The latter sent in the names of Rebecca and Leon
Small, and Garland and Elizabeth Ligon, as prospective
members, to be voted on in May. We heartily welcomed