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HORTICULTURAL ---May 6, 1975.

The Horticultural Society of Sandy Spring met with Jennie
and Tom Canby at their beautiful home on Haviland Mill Road
on Tuesday, May 6th, 1975. As guests the Canbys had their
two young sons, [Vertrees Canby|Vertrees]] and Yellett, and Mr. and Mrs. Rudy
Hanel, new neighbors who live in Brinkwood.

This was Horticultural's first meeting with the Canbys.
Their effective and lovely landscaping should certainly stimulate
some of us older members. From the dining room window one had
a charming view of a long expanse of green leading into woods
at the brow of the hill thru which we had a glimpse of a marvellous
sunset. To the right is their beautiful boxwood garden.

After a delicious supper Robert Miller called the meeting to
order. May is the month for collecting the members' annual dues,
50 cents per family. The secretary, who also acts as the Treasurer,
reported that there was a balance on hand of $6.11. The
amount realized at this collection was $5.50; which made
a total of $11.61 now held in the Society's treasury.

Claire Hutton, our reader for the evening, talked about
bristlecone pines. About 2 1/2 years ago, she said, Pete Hutton
planted some seedlings which are now about so high; she indicated
about two to three feet, I believe. She read from an article on such
pines in the March, 1975, issue of the Natural History Magazine entitled
"Living Links with the Past." Bristlecone pine trees are the world's
oldest oldest organisms. They grow in six states of the U.S.A (California,
Nevada, Utah, Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona). The most a found
in the Bristlecone Pine Forest in the White Mountains of eastern