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3^d meeting

At a meeting of the "Home Interest"
held at Leawood on the 29th of the
10^th Mo 1870 nine members were present
and about as many visitors. After an
hours talk of the weather, crops, politics,
etc, the assemblage came to order, and
proceeded to inspect and enjoy the great
variety of flowers and other home attractions
of the place. The sitting room was
decked with vases and hanging baskets,
whose wandering verdure clustered about
the windows and gave promise to
the happy hostess that when all else
shall adopt the sober livery, there,
will still be perpetual spring. We
ascended to the second story of the tower &
found a room appropriated to the
flowers & plants that could not find a
place upon the ground floor. There
was a large collection & many are
rare in this bank of the country.