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

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 $ f !► ❖ CONTENTS Spring Works and Days........................ 2 My Garden.................................... 3 Poisonous Plants............................. 4 Mushrooms—Maybe.............................. 6 Cavour, and the Making of Modem Italy...... 8 The Lament of Murphy O’Roscombe..............1 I School Notes.................................12 Coming Events................................13 French Gardening in England..................14 Smiles ......................................15 Exchanges....................................15 It Can be Done...............................16 E. L. L......................................16 § § •

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AMBLER BAKING CO. Whatever else you may select in your daily order of food supplies remember the two strong points about our products: THE SANITARY METHODS employed in making the goods and the STANDING INVITATION to the public to visit the plant at any time. BREAD—ROLLS—CAKES BAKERY: AMBLER, PA. Upholsterer, Cabinet Maker and Finisher Furniture repaired and recovered or made to order, to fit any place in your home; made right, and we beat Philadelphia houses on prices. Let us show samples of carpets, linoleums, awnings and shades; estimates furnished. A. LAPETINA 405 Bailer Avenne AMBLER, PA. Keystone Phone 341Bell Phone 26 m SCHOOL OF HORTICULTURE FOR WOMEN AMBLER, PENNSYLVANIA 18 MILES FROM PHILADELPHIA Spring Term of regular 2-year course begins FEBRUARY 14, 1916 Practical and theoretical training in the growing of FRUITS, VEGETABLES AND FLOWERS Simple Carpentry, Bees, Poultry, Preserving, School Gardening, Elementary Landscape Gardening! The demand for trained women to fill positions, along horticultural lines, is steadily growing. ELIZABETH LEIGHTON LEB, Director Conaaltaat to tbe Garden Club of America

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4 WISE-ACRES 4 VOL. Ill March, 1916. No. 9 Published Quarterly by the Students of the School of Horticulture for Women, Ambler, Pa. Entered at the Ambler Post Opfice as Second-Class Matter Editor-In-Chief, Louise Carter Business Manager, Lois Goss STAFF Associate Editor, Jane Righter Associate Business Manager, Ruth LaGanke Advertising Editor, Katherine Cohen Exchange Editor, Amy Woodruff Secretary, Adeline Greathead On Dollar a Year Single Copy, Twenty-five Cents prrng Plorbs anb ags Spring has come! Heralded by the first blith music of the birds on their return from the south and the swelling buds on twigs and branches, it is here. Already the daffodils are nodding their gay, golden heads in the gardens, and the brave little dandelions are peeping up over the lawns in a tentative way to open their hearts to the genial sunshine. The first shy little wild flowers lend glints of fresh color and beauty in the woodlands, and all the wee life that crawls and creeps in swamps and marshy places is alive and vivid in the joy of the days. And these are busy days for the horticulturist. There is much pruning to be done in the orchards and nursery rows and many young apple trees to be trained in the way that they should go. And the garden work moves on apace. The seeds have long since been ordered, after much deliberation and perusal of catalogues, and the planning of garden plots goes forward with much enthusiasm and anticipation—may the gardens in reality equal the ideals of the planners! This is the “rush season” in the hot bed community, and there are seedlings by the hundreds and thousands in the greenhouses, in every stage of development. The apiary, too, is awakening from its winter hibernation; the hives emerge again from their winter coverings and the bees answer again the call of all that is living and budding and venture forth in the sunshine. The poultry houses now are scenes of great activity! All the incubators are full and under the great hovers hundreds of peepsy little chicks scratch out their happy, downy babyhood, and the Easter broilers arc well started on their way in life. The time for the spring housecleaning comes again when every crack and crannie is cleaned and disinfected and sprayed with whitewash 'till it glistens in its snowy -splendor and one rejoices in the cleanliness and freshness that it proves is possible for a poultry house to possess. So busy days are these, but through all the busyness there rings the fresh, radiant vigor of the days and over all the countryside, in field and woodland and garden, things stir and live again and all the world attunes itself to spring.—L. C. 2