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

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The School of Horticulture for Women AMBLER, PENNSYLVANIA ELIZABETH LEIGHTON LEE, Director DIPLOMA COURSE OF TWO YEARS Entrance in January and September. Floriculture Fruit Growing Vegetable Gardening Botany Woody Ornamental Plants Rural Economy Soils and Fertilizers Landscape Gardening (elementary) Zoology, Economic Carpentry The Farm Woodland Business Methods ELECTIVES Poultry, Bees, Canning and Preserving, School Gardening, Care of Animals. Practical work out of doors and in the greenhouse forms a large part of th curriculum FEES: Tuition per year of 40 weeks $200.00 Board single room 40 weeks 475.00 Board double room 40 weeks 450.00 SUMMER COURSE-4 WEEKS AUGUST Floriculture Fruit Growing Vegetable Gardening Canning Preserving FEES: Tuition for the course, $25.00. Day Students, one subject, 3 hours per week, $5.00. Registration fee $2.00. Board and lodging $ 12 to $ 14 per week. Luncheon may be obtained at the School for 50 cent . Tea. coffee or milk ten cents. Trainsleave Reading Terminal 8.15 A. M., 12.02 P. M. Returning leave Ambler 1.11 P. M., 4.52 P. M. Transportation to and from tho station free of charge. FOR SALE—Fresh fruits, eggs, poultry, flowers and plants, jams, jellies, fruit juices.

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WISE-ACRES Vol. VI November, 1921 No. 24 Published Quarterly by the Students ofthe 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 Editor-In-Chief, Eleanor F. Fullerton. Asst. Editor, Elinor Mathews Acting Adv. Mgr., Elizabeth Swing Business Manager, Edith Diehl One Dollar a Year Single Copy, Twenty-five Cents EDITORIAL JOTTINGS We are sorry to hear that Miss Nicolson, our instructor in Floriculture and Vegetable Gardening, is leaving at the end of the year. Miss Nicolson has presided over the greenhouses and gardens for three years, and she has sent out a group of well-trained, enthusiastic students. She has done more than teach the theory of growing, more than train hands. She has preached the gospel of love and understanding, and the vital necessity for a deep-seated enthusiasm if your work is going to amount to the most. We have reprinted in this issue a brief article by Miss Edna M. Gunnell, who was a former greenhouse instructor at the School. We were interested to learn, through the Journal of the English Farm and Garden Association, that Miss Gunnell had been appointed Horticultural Superintendent to the County of Devon. It sounds like a pretty important post, and we are glad Miss Gunnell is the first woman to fill it. Ula Fay has found a mighty interesting job. She is1 an Occupational Aide at the U. S. Public Health Service Hospital No. 35, in St. Louis. She expected to have floricultural work when she went there, but discovered very little equipment. So far, her activities have been confined to the filling of window boxes, making of hanging baskets and planning enthusiastically for the greenhouse which she hopes to have soon.