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of outdoor surroundings & the [illegible] was most impressive.
a deadsilence, so we missed our usual
pleasant ramble to the Bone mill, & after visit to the
garden of summer flowers, always so successfully
tended by our hostess. Then the minutes were
called for & the blundering new Sec read the wrong
ones at the right time & vice versa.

Questions were asked & answered somewhat
as follows

1st What should be done in the fall with crape myrtle?
Leave in pot & remove within doors.

2nd. When is the time to transplant an asparagus bed?
Leave the old bed & plant a new one in the spring.

3rd Are rags, preferable to leaves, to protect young Roses?
Recommended to try both & report.

4th Who has substituted milk for soap in dish water?
Try it.

5th Should Corporeal punishment be administered
& at what age? We should enforce obedience
in our children on all occasions, but in doing so
we should be regulated by those principles of Justice
truth & mercy, that in so admire in the laws governing