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The Maples
August 28th, 1929.

On the afternoon of Aug. 6 The Horticultural Society assembled at
Cloverly to be greeted by our hostess and her
family in a real Cloverly way. Several guests
met with us but the absence of some of the members
made the meeting smaller than usual. August
is the month of full attendance but the
lure of seaside, the mountains, and the broad
highways for automobile travel call many of our
people hither and yon. In the absence of our
chairman, Harry Stabler, and Vice-Chairman,
Henry Nichols, Cousin Charlie Brooke took the
chair and called the meeting to order at the
usual hour, the order of business being followed.

Emma Stabler read a most interesting and
amazing story of sky scraper gardening on the
roofs of New York apartments, office buildings
and factories, making Manhattan a veritable
Babalonia n garden of beauty and wonder of the
new world. Mary Reading Nichols read also of
gardens, telling of one converted from a swamp
into a blooming landscape. This noted garden,
famed not only for its beauty, but simplicity as
well, is situated at the upper end of Centerport
Harbor and is one of the show places of Long
Island. This garden of Mrs. Charles E. Burling
fairly radiates warmth and welcome.

Minus Formality, Alice Stabler volunteered
an article on roses which was enjoyed, and suggested
the rose as a national flower. This
however, is not generally favored as in some
localities, the rose is not seen in all its