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

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CONTENTS Editorial...................................... 4 Cooperation of British and American Women’s Farm Work............................... 6 Some Ornamental Characters and Seasonal Values of Woody Plants................10 A Promising New Spray Material...............13 Letters........................................14 Social.........................................18 Relish for the Wise 19

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Ornamentals exclusively distinctive in quality and variety We cater to the most discriminating-trade. ANDORRA NURSERIES Cbetotuc'HillfPii Plant Your Savings NOW! Plant where your funds are safe and plant also where they will grow. The First National Bank of Ambler, Pa. has $2,000,000 in resources. It pays 2 per cent, interest on checking accounts and SV2 per cent, on savings accounts. Wm. H. Faust, Cashier. J. W. CRAFT SONS Ambler, Pa. Manufacturers and Dealers in Scratch and Mash Feed Building Material Fencing Materials Lehigh Coal JOHN DULL FRUIT AND VEGETABLES Butler Avenue Ambler, Pa. HEISS’S Dry Goods, Notions, Millinery Men’s Furnishings 303-305 Butler Ave. Ambler, Pa. LAMPHERE Jeweler Butler Avenue, Ambler, Pa. C. Marvin Riley ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR SUPPLIES All Kinds of Repairs 250 Park Avenue AMBLER, PA. Both Phones MENTION “WISE ACRES.” IT HELPS YOU AND HELPS US.

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WISE-ACRES Vol. VI July, 1920 No. 19 Published Quarterly by the Students of the School of Horticulture for Women, Ambler, Pa.—Elizabeth Leighton Lee, Director Entered at Ambler P. 0. 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 EDITORIAL The recent interview with Mrs. May Elliot Hobbs, of Kelmscott, England, published in “The Christian Science Monitor” and copied in this issue of Wise-Acres is extremely significant of the times. The question of farm crops harvesting as well as dairy work in inspecting and testing certified milk, etc., has come to be a serious one. The labor of skilled as well as unskilled hands is a serious problem throughout the whole United States, and is, no doubt, one of the causes of the “H. C. L” Sophie Irene Loeb. in the “N. V. World,” went on an investigating tour through the “Empire State” and in an extremely interesting article states that everywhere farm help is needed and there is a demand for women helpers. The farmerettes have “made good” and the farmers would hire more if possible. At one place thirty school teachers spent their holidays working on farms. Naturally, the woman who is a graduate of an agricultural college or school or has had some training along these lines finds no trouble ill securing a better position as assistant or manager in poultry plants, green house work, care and marketing of special crops, small fruits, etc., or floriculture. This is not necessarily heavy or hard work, and for the woman who loves Nature and does not care for confining office work it is a God send. Any woman who cares to make herself an expert will find no trouble in getting into government work. There is plenty of room at the top, and as the love of gardens and country homes seems to be growing by leaps and bounds in America, this enthusiasm for. women in out of door work is shared by many amateurs as well as the woman who makes it a profession. The farm and crop experts at Washington have been urging the necessity of keeping up small home and back- yard gardens and give amazing figures of the enormous amount of food produced during the war on these 4