Club Minutes: Horticultural Society, 1929

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Whose "going" is our loss too.

A picture of Roger B. Farquhar comes to us, so wise, & so constant in his interest in the Horticultural, [?] members were sure he could help us, for he knew the "right way," from his long experience.

And Alban G. Thomas, who is there to fill his place? he brought such a youthful spirit & enthusiasm to the meetings; he knowledge was by actual experience, in horticulture & his advice always good.

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Our dear Anna T. Nesbitt! it is so hard to believe her "away" forever. She was a most successful worker among flowers. and in their garden, so like a flower herself, and so young to leave this beautiful world.

All these are gone, our part now is to help each other to make our meetings worth-while; loving the memory of them and missing their presence. Each one of them had heavy [burdens?] to bear, but they took up their life work again, with courage & fortitude

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giving us examples of strength and unselfishness.

Let us bind the circle closer together, showing those younger, what their example has done for us.

C. H. B.

(Cornelia H. Bentley)

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It singeth low in every heart, We hear it, each and all, --- A song of those who answer not, However we may call; They throng the silence of the breast, We see them as of yore, --- The kind, the brave, the true, the sweet, Who walk with us no more!

'Tis hard to take the burden up, When these have laid it down; They brightened all the joy of life, They softened every frown; But oh, 'tis good to think of them, When we are troubled sore! Thanks be to God that such have been, Though they are here no more!

More homelike seems the vast unknown, Since they have entered there; To follow them were not so hard, Wherever they may fare; They cannot be where God is not, On any sea or shore; Whate'er betides. thy love abides. Our God, forevermore!

John White Chadwick

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Falling Green, June 5th. 1929

Because of the great bereavement to members of the Horticultural Society, the April meeting was omitted, the first meeting was held at Edgewood, May 8th.

The meeting was called to order by our President Cousin Charlie Brooke. The minutes of Oct 1928 were read and approved. Cornelia Bentley in Beautiful language paid a loving tribute to those who have "crossed the Bar" since our last meeting in 1928. It is for those of us who are left to carry on.

The usual order of business was taken up. Mrs. Green read of the benefits of paper mulch, it's increasing use and the saving of time and labor the gardner has. She also read a clipping telling us that geraniums are a deadly foe to the destructive Japanise beetle, cultivate geraniums.

Cousin ?Corrie read a letter from Mary Magruder, discriptive of her journey across the Atlantic, and approaching the shores of the British Isles..

The Secretary read of the success of a community Spray in sections of Howard County. This is a need expressed by several of our society who have only a few fruit trees. This request and clipping were referred to the Community Council. The report of the Council was read, and listened to with interest. This group indorses the agricultural and commercial courses suggested to be added to the High School Cirriculum.

Forethought told us to plant parsley where coalashes have been thrown. Also that now is the time to plant for winter bouquets. The lazy gardner is told to plant Petunias, they just grow, and to trim out dead wood from spring shrubs.