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be interesting to all members as it seems to be a
Maryland discovery, being a soil deposit used for fertilizer
found particularly in Calvert County,Md. It is a res-
idue of marine life centuries ago and is worth more by
the ton than gold costing thirty dollars a ton after it
is mined. It is characterized by a greenish black loam
found thirty to fifty feet under the ground. It is bagged
and sokld to greenhouses as fertilizer and improves all
plant growth. One tomato plant which thad beenfed with
Glauconite grew to a height of fifteen feet.

Rebecca then switched roles and became the Committee
on Forethough,t telling us that marigold and ageratum
can be brought in the house for the winter. Work in slow
fertilizer in the border, plant spinach and onions,
start tulip planting and finished by reading the beautiful
poem,October, by William Cullen Bryant.

Edward Iddings gave the meteorologist report for Sept-
ember: average temperature was 65 1/2; average rainfall6 2/10

The members had responded nobley to the suggestion
of more exhibits and a splendid array was displayed.
Flowers from"edgewood ", plums and other vegetables from
"The Highlolands" , apples that loooked like pictures from th
Hutton's orchard, and probably the one the members enjoyed
most was the basket of grapes from "Homestone" as we hd
them for our dessert.

The meeting was adjouned until next April when
the members will meeting with Ulric and Rose Hutton.

The readers for that meeting are to be selected by
the secretary.