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H/7/1929 -2.

Questions.

Cousin Corrie Brooke Asked why snap-dragons have
not flourshed, Several other members have had the
same experience, but no suggesions were offered.
Elza Thomas told of Gladiola left in the ground
all winter, being early and beautiful. Fred
Thomas is annoyed by very large moles, many members
have this perplexing thing to deal with, but it
seem impossible to get rid of them.

Several reported trees struck by lightening during
the unusual electric storms of the last of June.

How to make grass grow under trees. Trim out the limbs
where possible to let the sunlight in. Sow seed on the
sod, and when the ground is wet, was a suggestion
from Mr. Ray. How much Harn is the Mexican Bean beetle
doing. Edgewood reported fine limas. Use of Calcium
Magnesium still holds good as a preventative to the
beetle.

The annual question when to stop cutting lawns was
discussed, Sept. 18 being the date approved by those
who have adh experience.

Several reports of rosss being brown. Spray with
Calcium Magnesium.

Adjourned to Cloverly, August sixth.

The garden and yard with its halo of age, seemed bathed
in sunlight, and nowhere more than at Brooke Grove
are the lines of Joyce Kilmer's fullfilled, and
remembered, "That Only God can Make a Tree."

Mary M. Nichols
Sect