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Brooke Grove
June 5^th 1917

The Horticultural Society meet
at this dear home. After the reading
of the minutes the readers of
selected articles were called.

1^st Mary Stabler read of Cow peas
used for table purposes. They are
really a kind of bean and are
like other kinds of beans, compareable
with meat in the kind of
nourishment contained in them
The specialist of the Dept. of Agricultural
say they are good human food
in the North as they are in the South
There are many varieties The white
and the black-eye sorts are the favorites
They are cooked in various
ways.

2^nd Reader Mary B. Brooke per E. L. I.
some curious names of flowers,

Volunteer, Margaret Bancroft, "How to
to grow salad in your cellar all winter"
Whitloof chicory which is French
Endive Sow the seed middle of
June cultivate during summer to
get good roots. After frost pack the
parsnip-like roots in a box 18
inches deep. with rich earth. Coarse
litter for drainage, water well.
Exclude the light. Growth will
start soon; the white shoots will