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H/6/1914-1-

-ing. One row of peas was a foot high; no
other member had them more than six inches;
other plants were abundant and growing well.

Ellen Farquhar had cowslips and Doro
-thy Perkins rose bushes for those who wanted
them and Robert Miller had raspberry plants
to give away.

Next meeting to be at The Highlands.

Readers Emma Stabler and Florence Bentley

The Highlands

June 2nd 1914

This beautiful day at this beautiful place
was greatly different from that of our last meet-
-ing here. To-day "so cool, so calm, so bright," that
day the electrical storm thro which we came
with floods of rain so that many mem-
-bers stopped at houses by the road side
until the worst was over, and not a
drop fell here.

The minutes were read and accepted.
1st Reader, Emma Stabler. A new way of
treating peach trees to insure a crop of fruit
on the East slope of the Rocky Mountains

The trees are bent over to the ground and
covered with hay. The earth is cut away over
one side of the tree, and the roots cut off on
two sides so the tree will go over without injury
to the roots on the other two sides; after the
tree is bent over planks are put over the branches
then hay and two inches of earth. They withstand