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

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CONTENTS Miss Lee’s Trip.............................. 4 Hardy Chrysanthenums......................... 7 Washing Birds for Shows......................11 Extracts from Miss Williams’ Letter..........13 Beautiful English Gardens....................15 French Gardening............................ 17 Announcements................................18 Relish for the Wise....................... .19 3

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Toilet Creams Lotions Cuticle Food delightfully perfumed for rough and injured skin. Price 63c. Rose Pomatum (Royale) for cleansing and refreshing hands and face after exposure to weather. Price 78c. Our aim is to supply thoroughly dependable and honestly made products. Send for folder of all Grist Toilet Preparations. Mail orders promptly attended to. Bessie P. Grist 119 So. 17ih St. Phila., Pa. Good Drugs—Results Good We Know Enough jihout DRUGS To Give You the Best Stillwagon s Drug Store COLLIER’S GOOD TAXI SERVICE Phone, Ambler 114-W Ambler, Pa. “I saw your ad in Wise Acres” Tell our advertisers when answering advertisements. It’s just a little thing that helps us.

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WISE-ACRES Vol. VI October, 1920 No. 20 Published Quarterly by the Students of the School of Horticulture for Women, Ambler, Pa.—Elizabeth Leighton Lee, Director Entered at Ambler P. O. as Second-Class Matter Under Act of March 3.1879. STAFF Editors, Mary B. Merryweather and Mary G. Hubbell Adv. Mgr.. Margaret A. Trimble Asst. Adv. Mgr., Eleanor F. Fullerton Business Manager, Amy R. Thurston One Dollar a Year Single Copy, Twenty-five Cents “Wise-Acres” is fortunate—Miss Elinor Fullerton is chosen editor-in-chief for next year—and also the treasurer reports that the paper is in good financial condition. The object of the School of Horticulture is horticulture as a profession for women either out in the world or on their own places, large or small—so anything pertaining to this subject will always be welcomed by the school paper. We are all interested in Miss Lee’s visit to England and Ireland last June and July- Miss Lee kindly consents to tell of it in this issue of “Wise-Acres” and th,e next. The first account follows: A blast—a deafening and prolonged blast—from the ship’s fog horn announced that the “Baltic” was pulling out of the dock in New York harbor, and that in ten days' time, if all went well, she would dock at Liverpool. On June 1st, true to schedule, she pulled into the Liverpool dock. At v o’clock breakfast, and then a long wait while the luggage was being taken oft, everyone hanging over the rail—not for the purpose that they had assumed that attitude in mid-ocean—but watching with horror and dismay the toboggan slide of 75 feet or more from the ship to the dock, down which their precious luggage would soon in its turn take its winged flight! Then a scramble on the dock to find the section where the initial letter of one’s last name appears on the post or wall, and a forlorn hope that under that letter by some miracle one’s worldly goods would be found intact. And they generally w.ere! No trouble with the custom house officials, as their minds were centered on sugar and tobacco, neither of which we carried. It would not have been a bad idea, however, to have a little of the former, as in several places we were told that the house did not furnish sugar. If on,e wanted it the proper thing to do was to go to the Town Hall and obtain a traveller’s license for its purchase. A householder also had to have a permit and was allowed only so much. The same thing happened in England with regard to the sugar 4