Horticultural Society

H/4/1904 -4Avalon, flowers. Cedar Lawn, flowers.

New business

The secretary will soon need a new book for minutes. A.G. Thomas kindly offered to purchase it. It was proposed to furnish the Secretary with 100 postal cards to use as required for the Society. Favorably received.

A proposition was made to try, for one summer, having the members meet at 12 on lunch at 1 o'clock and the business after lunch. There was much discussion for and against. The majority opposed the experiment.

The importance of each exhibitor bringing a list of specimens was brought up and all requested to attend to it. The assistant secretary will collect the lists and read them at the proper time. She is often afraid she has overlooked some specimen or specimens and made an imperfect report.

Questions

1. Why does lettuce damp off in cold frames? Too little air or too much water, probably.

H/4/1904 -42. What is the best method of applying hen manure to vegetables? Run off the rows put in the manure and cover 3. How raise beets? Run the row, put a pinch of seeds in a place, three inches apart, cover an inch deep - press the earth with the foot or wheelbarrow. Plant early, when well up thin to one in a place. Those pulled out can be replanted or eaten for greens.

4. Will cholera be apt to come again to Norwood chickens? It may. Copper as in the drinking water, a tablespoonful of phenyle to a gallon of meal to feed, are recommended.

5. Can anything be done to improve the Sandy Spring public school yard? Suggested to sow grass seed after shool closes, in the hope that the scholars will become interested in keeping it in order. It might be best to put it into the hands of our school commissioner.

Gov. Warfield's article on arbor day and Highway day, earnestly recommending combining the two, and encouraging planting trees and shrubbery in

H/4/1904 -5 school yards and along highways and setting the 15th of April for the work, was read, and listened to with much interest.

6. Straw on strawberry bed 6 to 10 inches deep; what do with it - mow? Remove from around each plant so you can see it.

7. An asparagus bed not manured in the fall. What should be done now? Rake off coarse litter. Burpee says manure in the spring does little good. Nitrate of soda recommended.

8. Is it too late to buy currant and gooseberry bushes? No.

9. Grape vines not trimmed last year. Is it too late to do it now? No, if they bleed sere with a hot iron; bleeding wont hurt them.

10. Locust roots go into a well? Cut the tree down and dig up the stump. Cutting off the roots in the well, is a temporary plan.

11. Do the members use nest eggs? Some do. Some do not, saying hens can be educated to do without. A member whose hens seek new places, if she takes

H/4/1904 -5. the nest egg, and who has glass eggs taken by two-footed or four-footed dogs, made some by taking a walnut with the hull on and covering it with white muslin, saying if a hen will sit for six weeks on a door knob or a corn cob it ought be be satisfied with a walnut.

12. Chickweed in a strawberry bed, what should be done? Hoe where very thick and pull where close to the plants.

13. Wine-berry, winter killed; how treat it? Cut out all dead canes. It is well to trim back in the fall.

14. When plant canna roots? 1st of May.

Rose bushes at most places were killed to the ground, except the very hardiest kinds. Small bushes killed In making an asparagus bed, get two year old roots.

Hannah Stabler sent sweet corn seed for distribution.

Our walk was deferred until the garden is made.

Next meeting to be at Norwood.

Readers Ellen Farquhar and Isabel Miller

H/6/1904 -1The meeting for May was omitted owing to the death of our beloved friend Caroline Farquhar.

Norwood June 1st 1904 noon 70

John Bentley opened the meeting and and spoke of the sad occurrence which made it necessary for him to preside at this meeting. the death of Caroline Farquhar. He called upon Dr. Kirk to read a tribute to her memory which he had prepared. It met with approval and it was decided to enter it on the minutes and send a copy to her family.

After the minutes were read 1st reader, Ellen Farquhar read 1st of Oriental poppies; Started early they will bloom next season. 2nd Trimming dahlias, leave only two shoots 2nd Reader Isabel Miller an article on strawberries. In this connection a strawberry huller was shown which is said to be satisfactory.

H/6/1904 -2Forethought. sow cabbage this month for winter use; keep tomato plants worked and apply nitrate of soda two or three times. When strawberry picking is over, work the beds and keep the runners cut off. After the Roses have bloomed cut away unsightly branches and give a good dressing of bone or some good fertilizer. Keep flower beds worked. The vegetable will need constant vigilance. For egg-plants a rich soil and a tablesponnful of Nitrate of Soda to each hill. Keep the soil mellow and apply nitrate of Soda two or three times, mulch when plants begin to bloom.

Poultry

Alloway 261 chicks 32 turkies Avalon 160 " Brooke Grove 812 " 24 " Cloverley 160 " Fair Hill 300 " 92 " 48 d Falling Green 200 " Knollton 170 " Norwood 150 " Riverside 31 " Riverton 60 " 15 duck Rockland 300 " 61 "

H/6/1904 -3Tanglewood 260 chicks. turks. Woodburn 700 " 21 " Highland 150 " 12 "

Exhibits

Alloway, corn, potatoes, cabbage, eggplant, cauliflower, radishes, onions, soap bean plant, beets, Lima bean plant, lettuce, Strawberries and flowers

Avalon, asparagus, beets, peas, onions, roses and other flowers.

Brooke Grove, peas, beets, onions, radishes, lettuce, kale, asparagus, spinach, snap beans in bloom, stalk of corn, Lima bean vine, cabbage plant, cymling plant, potato plant with small potatoes, Strawberries, Flowers Roses from Peggy's Jacqueminot

Cedar Lawn, onions, peas, beets, potatoes, stalk of corn roses and Oriental poppies.

Cloverley, cabbage, peas, lettuce, beets, radishes, onions, salsify, parsnips and roses.

Edgewood, peas, lettuce, radishes, onions strawberries and roses.

H/6/1904 -4Falling Green, snap and Lima bean plants, cucumber plant, corn, cymbling vine cabbage, egg-plant, potatoes, peas, and roses.

Knollton, peas, beets, rhubarb, spinach, onions, radishes and Roses.

Riverside, asparaus, radishes & flowers

Riverton, lettuce, beets, corn, spinach, radishes and flowers.

Rock Spring, snap beans, Lima, beans, onions, beets, radishes, lettuce corn, potatoes, spinach, peas and strawberries.

Rockland, corn, peas, beets, asparagus, Lima and snap bean plants, Apples and flowers.

There were other specimens but no lists of them were given.

The receipt of the new book for the Secretary was acknowledged. We $1.50 to A.G. Thomas. A member was appointed to collect .10 cents from each member.

Questions

1. When and how move an asparagus bed? Prepare the ground in the fall and move in the fall or early spring.

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It should not be cut for two years It might be better to buy 2 years old roots for the new bed and use from the older one as long as practicable 2 Why should celery go to root more than top? Cause unknown. Try Nitrat of soda, a handful to a step. 3. How kill asparagus beetle? Some say use Paris green. 4. What causes gooseberries to blight? Supposed to be a fungus growth. Dr. Kirk thinks the trouble is at the root. Try Bordeaux mixture

A walnut tree bore tremendously last year and now many limbs are dead Cause not known.

A member had a wonderful bloom of geraniums by keeping the plants in the pots all summer and not allowing them to become dry.

A visitor spoke favorably of the paragon chestnut as a vegetable. 5. How make an English walnut tree bear? Echo answers "how". 6. Should a young asparagus bed be mulched this summer? Work and fertilize this summer and mulch this fall.

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7. How get a parsley bed? Sow very early and mulch with cut grass 8. How kill slugs on Roses? Spray with helebore 9. Should we thin peaches and plums where they are crowded? Thin after the June fall to four or five inches.

We were informed that Lima beans can be transplanted successfully.

To our disappointment, a rain prevented our walk in the garden. Three of the gentlemen inspected it and gave ood report. It was clean and the vegetables well advanced.

Readers for next meeting Susannah Thomas Annie Kirk

E.S.I. Sec.