Pennsylvania School of Horticulture for Women - Wise Acres Yearbook (Ambler, PA)

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EDITORIALS Published Quarterly by the Students of the School of Horticulture for Women, Ambler, Pa. Entered at the Ambler Post Okpicb as Second-Class Matter STAFF Editor-In-Chief, Ruth La Ganke Associate Editor, Ida L. Mills Advertising Editor, Eleanor Lawrence Business Manager, Clara M. Bell Art Editor, Frances Shinn Secretary, Adeline Greathead One Dollar a Year Single Copy, Twenty-five Cents Petrel] pays March is here. It brings with it the last frosty bluster of lingering winter and the first genial warmth of coming spring. What though “there is a wind generally waiting for you around the corner, to tweak you by the nose and drive your hands into your pockets every time tnc sun goes behind a cloud” spring is coming. All nature's signs our proof thereof. These hardy promises of the springtime are given in little things—the swelling of the bud, the notes of the early song-bird and the blue of the sky. The bravest of the robins are back, caroling their fruhlituj-sited of love and hope. The red-winged black birds are busily building their nurseries down by the marsh where the alders are shaking out their catkins and the willows are showing their soft gray pussies. The brooklets loosed from winter’s i(5y grasp tumble along through the meadows murmuring happy melodies as they go. The sedges along the banks are turning green and so, too, are patches of grass in the pastures which will soon be tempting mouthfuls for the cattle. Even the bees know that spring is at hand and are out buzzing noisily in the sunshine seeking their refreshment where they can. The little inconspicuous flowers of the red maple and the catkins yellow with pollen offer their stores to the hungry little guests. Another token of the spring is the coming forth of tiny insects to try their wings in staggery flight. They are allured by the bright sunshine of high noon, but evening’s chill, alas! cuts short their high ambitions. The barberry along the lane fences is a harbinger of warmer days, for its tiny rosettes of pink buds nestled in their green are peeping forth. Sunshine and south winds must alternate with chill winds and storms, so decrees the North Wind, but the onward march is always resumed and April, smiling through her tears, says “spring is here.” 12

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of the frame and no mole will ever enter your hotbed. This, of course, is somewhat expensive and the wire will last for only two seasons and the frame will not be movable. 2.—A somewhat cheaper remedy is the following: sprinkle potash on the bottom of your hotbed, then put in the manure and before you set the frame on the manure sprinkle potash where the frame sets, and a little outside the frame; these are the places where the mole enters. 3—Still another good remedy is: to take a handful of cotton, soak it with kerosene and put it in one of the tunnels where the mole has been burrowing, but avoid bringing the kerosene in contact with the plants. This last remedy should only be used when the mole has come into the frame, and it will certainly drive it away. You can also do this in your flower beds or your lawns, as the mole's sense of smell is very keen and it very much dislikes the odor of oil. I have tried all three remedies and have found them very effective. Come and see our hotbeds without moles! Fritz O. Lippold. pril An altered look upon the hills; A Tyrian light the village fills; A wider sunrise in the dawn; A deeper twilight on the lawn; A print of a vermilion foot; A purple finger on the slope; A flippant fly upon the pane; A spider at his trade again; An added strut in chanticleer; A flower expected everywhere; An axe shrill singing in the woods; Fern-odors on untravcled roads, All this, and more I cannot tell. —Selected. 11

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£ntudl beginning On a narrow shelf in the cosy office stood all that our school boasted in the way of a library in those days when a ten-months’ session was yet unknown, and classes of twenty girls, a hope unrealized. The books and periodicals of divers sizes, editions, values and ages were collected by teachers and friends of the school, who in zealous endeavor to increase the scope of the “library’s” utility, bought and borrowed or otherwise obtained possession of everything that could possibly have been classified under the awe-inspiring name of “Horticulture.” Oddly enough the number of volumes increased with each edition, and ere long the treasured library’s aspiration grew too great to be kept on a mere shelf, and so the collection augmented, aided and abetted by donations from our many friends was .satisfactorily established in spacious quarters in the quondam classroom. Such was the humble origin of our collection of nearly two hundred and twenty-five volumes. A horticultural library “The American Apple Orchard ’ Waugh. “The American Peach Orchard,” Waugh. “Plums and Plum Culture.” Waugh. “The American Fruit Culturist,” Thomas (latest edition). “Bush Fruits.” Card. American Horticulture Manual, Budd and Hansen (2 vol.) “Cranberry Culture.” White. “Evolution of Our Native Fruits,” Bailey. “Foundations of American Grape Culture,” Munson. “Quince Culture.” Mccch. “Strawberry Growing,” Wilkinson. “Bean Culture,” Sevey. “Peas and Pea Culture,” Sevey. “The Potato.” Frazer. “Asparagus,” Hexamer. “Book of Vegetables and Garden Herbs,” French. “Celery Culture.” Beattie. “Melon Culture,” Troop. “The New Onion Culture, Greiner. should be designed to meet the needs of the students upon any or all branches of the subject which fancy or study might lead her to investigate. While this ideal has been constantly kept in mind, it has not as yet been attained, for the departments of Landscape Gardening, Poultry, Canning, Preserving and Pickling have not a book to represent them on the shelves. Additional books on all the other branches are likewise much needed, for satisfactory reference work. In a library of such a nature as ours, the books most valuable are those of recent date from the pens of experts and authorities on their particular subjects. We print below a partial list of such books needed and trust that some of our friends will be interested in adding to our collection. Magazines and books of fiction are also welcome, for they are most entertaining and relaxing when we reach that point of entire “prostration from all desire to work.” “The New Rhubard Culture,” Morse and Fiske. “Squashes,” Gregory. Sweet Potatoes,” Fitz. “Tomato Culture,” Tracy. “Soils and Fertilizers,” Snyder. “Farmers for Forty Centuries,” King. Farmer’s Manual of Law,” Willis. “How to Choose a Farm.” Hunt. “Diseases of Cultivated Plants and Trees,” Massee. “Charles Eliot-Landscape Architect.” Eliot. “The Art of Landscape Gardening,” Repton (Nolen Edition). Landscape Gardening, Kemp. Plant Breeding,” Bailey. “Fundamentals of Plant Breeding,” Coulter. “Preserving and Pickling,” Lemcke. “Canning, Preserving and Pickling,” Neal. “Principles and Practice of Poultry Culture,” Robinson. Poultry Textbooks, F. C. Doolittle. Michcll’sSimplex System of Poultry Keeping. 13