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Ulric Hutton recommending Scottish black currant jam
as a delicious treat and explaining why black currants
are not grown in this country. It seems it is illegal in some states
because of a disease having them as one of its 3 hosts;
the others being juniper and wheat. The omission of
one breaks the cycle and controls the disease.

Sylvia's FORETHOUGHT reminded us to mark daffodils
for division and replanting, feed bulbs, remove 1/3 of
oldest canes on forsythia, plant hardy annuals, sew
everlasting, set the lawn mower at 2 1/2, pick pansies.

The report of the Metereologist or weather man, whose
title has been corrected to CLIMATOLOGIST, follows:
May's high was 84°; low - 24°; Average mean temperature
- 51°; with 8.1" of rainfall and 1" of snow. 100 years
ago the high was 89° and the mean was 53°. Is the world
getting colder?.

The list of exhibits is attached.

Comment on birds: An oriole is enjoying fresh apples
on B Hutton's feeder. He preceded his mate by several days.
A towhee is there too. Mary Moore sang ( whistled ) the
Oriole's tune and it was agreed to be quite accurate.

Bill Canby has a Red - headed Woodpecker, thought to be
almost extinct in these parts.

Allen Thomas has a Carolina Wren nesting in a basket
on his back porch.

B Hutton protects her wrens by locking them in the
garage to keep out the neighbour's cats!

Animal tales: Allen Thomas saw a rabbit pursued
by a red fox the other day. The rabbit got away.

The MEMBERSHIP committee dubiously
identified itself as Betty Ligon, Alan Thomas and Mary
Reading Miller. There are 16 members now with one
vacancy.

QUESTIONS:
Lucy Manning desired information on tomatoes in
a wire cage for a friend who had heard of such a phenomena
in California. Betty Ligon, Ulrich Hutton, Ellis Manning,
and Allan Thomas all contributed advice on raising them
this way from experience. The cage should be about 2 feet
across, staked firmly down and it was felt that the yield
is very good.

Bill Canby asked the Horticultural Society a question
his farmers' club couldn't answer and received advice
to use potatoes as bait for wireworms on root vegetables.
Or else to use 10-6-4 instead of 10-10-10.

Helen Farquhar is worried about a very old rose with
a lovely bloom which has bloomed ever since she has been
at the Cedars. It is dead. She was advised to prune
it to the ground. It may return. This has been a bad
winter for roses with no snow and quick variations in temperature.