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

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Making Cuttings of Last Summer's Favorite Roses

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4 WISE-ACRES 4 JESSIE T. MORGAN. Director of School Vol. ii March, 1915. No. 5 J£0ljere a Resourceful Ionian Rims oob Rruftts Seven years ago, after various trips through the country within a radius ot twenty miles of Boston, father and I decided to go further afield to look for our place in the country. Farming was not in our minds at the time, but a desire to get out of the city for at least the greater part of the year. By chance we spent two days in a small village in Southern New Hampshire in early September, and had not been there a day, and a rainy one, too, before we knew we had found “it.” Early the next spring we went back and with little trouble found a large, comfortable, old-fashioned house for the summer. During that summer we became familiar with the surrounding country and were fortunate in being able to purchase one of the most desirable locations near the town. The “farm,” which consists of -six acres, is situated on a hill overlooking the valley on the east and a low range of mountains on the west. Nearly all the land is on a southeasterly slope and across the western boundary (except where we have thinned for the view) and part way down the northern, and southern, are trees of a good many years’ growth. The land had been grass land for many years previous to our purchase, with the exception of an acre which was in the natural state, uncleared pasture land. We ploughed the sod under that fall to rot and in the spring broke up the clumps and harrowed several times. Commercial fertilizer was broadcasted on three acres, which were planted to potatoes, a small section being planted to vegetables and another to flowers. Manure, with a generous supply of sawdust in it, was used for the vegetables and flowers, and in spite of the sawdust, the results were good. A few small fruits and shrubs were set out, and though the shrubs did well, the small fruits made little growth that first year. The remaining section was planted to field beans, which did not prove a paying crop for us. Our crop of potatoes was a success in every way and we were able to sell them in the nearest large town, five miles away, at a good price. The vegetables and flowers were my first attempts at anything of the kind and I felt well repaid for my efforts in the result. The following year we had a very trying experience. We planted a large area which had been loosened up the previous year by potatoes, to melons and pickling cucumbers. 3