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

Text from Pages 1 - 20 of the 1922 volume:

Suburban Homes Country Estates Farms—Building Sites In every part of the suburban section north of Philadelphia we have to offer an attractive list of most desirable properties—it will be to your interest to consult with us if you are looking for a high-grade home, country seat or a farm near Philadelphia H. J. DAGER AMBLER. PA. Bell Telephone, Ambler 137 HEISS’S Dry Gocds, Notions, Millinery Men’s Furnishings 303-305 Butler Ave. Ambler, Pa. Beds. Springs, Mattresses, Rugs All Sizes A. Lapetina, Ambler, Pa. Rees C. Roberts, Apothecary Incorporated DRUGS Ambler, Pennsylvania American Star Cleaners and Dyers Pressing, A tering and Repairing 5 So. Main St., Ambler J. W. CRAFT SONS Ambler, Pa. Manufacturers and Dealers in Scratch and Mash Feed Building Material Fencing Materials Lehigh Coal We Sell Most Everything 5 and 10 and Variety Store Our Motto—Rock Bottom Prices 405 Butler Avenue, Ambler, Pa. H Yoi R Grocer PHONES=BELL 31W - KEYSTONE 74 D THE PUBLIC BE—SERVED YOST S TAXI Butler and Ridge Avenues AMBLER, PA. Bell Phone 350w Keystone 25 E. H. HOLT Wholesale and Retail Dealer in Fruit, Produce, Oysters and Fish in Season Telephone 156W AMBLER, PA. R. M. Hallowell, Inc. Ford and Lincoln Sales and Service Both Phones AMBLER, PA. ENTRANCE DOORWAY School of Horticulture for Women Ambler, Pennsylvania SPRING COURSE-12 Weekt April 4th — June 24th SUBJECTS Fruit Growing Floriculture Canning and Preserving Floriculture Lansdscape Gardening Poultry Bees Vegetable Gardening Woody Ornamental Plants Farm Crops and Animals SUMMER COURSE August 1st to 26th SUBJECTS Floriculture, Vegetable Gardening, Fruit Growing, Canning and Preserving 1922—DIPLOMA COURSE Two Years of 40 Weeks Each. Entrance in January and September Subjects Floriculture Fruit Growing Vegetable Gardening Botany Woody Ornamental Plants Rural Economy School Gardening Day Students are admitted to all Junior Classes, to classes which extend only through one year, and to Senior Classes upon passing an examination. Soils and Fertilizers Landscape Gardening (Elementary) Zoology, Economic Carpentry Farm Crops The Farm Woodland Business Methods Electives Poultry. Bees. Canning and Preserving. Care of Animals. '■'radical work out of doors and in the greenhouse forms a large part of the curriculum. FEES—Tuition per year of 40 weeks .......................$200.00 Board and single room 40 weeks .................'. 475.00 Board and double room 40 weeks ................... 450.00 Registration Fee, $10.00 Registration fees are deducted upon first payment of tuition. Fees for day students $10 for 20 lecture-hour periods. For further information address MISS ELIZABETH LEIGHTON LEE, Director. WISE-ACRES Vol. VI June, 1922 No. 26 Published Quarterly by the Students of the School of Horticulture for Women, Ambler, Pa. —Elizabeth Leighton Lee, Director Enterkd at Ambler P. O. as Second-Class Matter Under Act of March 3, 1879. STAFF Editor-in-Chief, Sarah B. Fogg Asst. Editor, Josephine Sharon Adv. Mgr., Elizabeth Swing Asst. Adv. Mgr., Virginia deSterneck Business Manager, Irene Geiser One Dollar a Year Single Copy, Twenty-five Cents OUR ORIGINAL FORESTS Joseph S. Illick There is good reason to believe that the inhabitab’e portion of the earth's surface, with a few exceptions, was covered with a forest growth when it first became the home of man. North America was no exception, for the early American pioneer was confronted on all sides with dense and supposedly endless forests. It is said that a white pine tree was the first green thing that the pilgrim fathers saw when they landed on the rough and rocky shores of the New World. To be welcomed by such a beautiful and princely tree must have given cheer and comfort to the little band of daring and tired sea voyagers. The original forests of North America were not surpassed in beau tv, make-up or value by those found in any other part of the World. In all’they covered 822,000,000 acres—an area about thirty times the size of the whole State of Pennsylvania. 1 hey extended practically unbroken from the Atlantic to the prairies beyond the Mississippi, covered most of the Rocky Mountains, and occupied a wide strip of the Pacific coast. Nature was in a liberal mood when she made the great and prosperous State of Pennsylvania. hen the white man first set foot on her soil the entire land surface of the State, with the exception of a few natural meadows and several rough mountain tops, was covered with a dense forest growth. Nowhere in the East did there occur better and more valuable forest stands than those found on the hills and in the valleys of the Keystone State. It is appropriate that Pennsylvania means “Penn’s Woods and is the only State in the Union that embodies the word “forest’ in her name. Nature worked many centuries to produce these matchless miles of primaeval timber that once clothed every hill and valley of Pennsylvania. It is most unfortunate, but only too true that it took man only a short while to remove the original forest, and now only a few small and scattered remnants of original timber are left. 1 If one could see maps showing the forest structures of Pennsylvania in 1682, when Penn arrived, and in 1922, we would be amazed at the wonderful change that has taken place in a period that represents only a few generations of trees. They would show that where once stood supposedly inexhaustible stretches of unsurpassed timber there now remains vast areas of unproductive forest lands, and only a few scattered small remnants of primaeval timber. The original forests of Pennsylvania covered at least 28,500,000 acres. There are now left in the State 13,004,557 acres of forest lands, of which less than 25,000 acres are covered with original forests. This means that there is now left in the State only 1-350 of an acre of original timber for each inhabitant. This is a mere remnant of what was here at one time. In at least 50 of the 07 counties not a single full acre of primaeval forest remains. Most of the younger generations have never had the privilege of seeing the glory and grandeur of the original or nature-made forests. The few scattered remnants of original forests that are left occur in remote and rather inaccessible places. Nearly all of them were left because the lumbermen either missed them or could not get to them. Most of them are privately-owned. A small acreage is found on the State-owned forest land. It will not be long until most of the privately-owened will be cut down, for logging railroads are now approaching them or lumbering plans are in preparation. Special efforts should be put forth to protect and perpetuate the few stands of primaeval forest that do remain, for they will be worthy memorials to the present generation, and splendid object lessons to future generations. All those who have not seen the glory and grandeur of the primaeval forests will be well repaid by taking a trip to them and walking among these stately and princely trees and other associated life. There follows a list of some of the most important primaeval forest stands that now remain in Pennsylvania: 1. The Cook Forest—This tract of original timber consists chiefly of white pine. It is located in Clarion, Forest and Jefferson counties, and has long been admired by residents of Western Pennsylvania, who believe that it should be preserved as a natural forest park. It can be reached over a State Highway through Cooksburg. Detail information can be supplied by The District Forester, Clarion, Pa. 2. Wheeler-Dusenbury Forest Holdings—This company owns extensive forest property in northwestern Pennsylvania. At one time their holdings comprised some of the finest white pine found in the State of Pennsylvania. Only one small tract of original timber remains. It covers approximately 700 acres, and is one of the largest and heaviest stocked stands of original timber in Pennsylvania. Conservative estimators feel that on some of the acres there stand fully 200,000 board feet of fine white pine lumber. This fine primaeval timber will be lumbered in a few years and may be reached by the way of the city of Warren. De- 2 tail information can be supplied by The District Forester, Warren. Pa. 3. Primaeval Forest Holdings of Central Pennsylvania Lumber Company—The Central Pennsylvania Lumber Company is one of only a few lumber companies that still operate in Pennsylvania. Among its forest holdings is a tract located in Bradford and northern Sullivan counties, reported to cover approximately 10,000 acres upon which are excellent stands of original timber. Detail information can be supplied by The District Forester. Dushore, Sullivan County, Pa. 4. Colonel Rickett’s Forest Estate—Upon the estate of the late Colonel Rickett, located in Sullivan county, there stands some of the finest original hemlock and hardwood trees found in Penn-s lvania. This original timber is found along the gorge of Kitchen Creek, below Great Shawanese Lake, for a distance of several miles. This gorge is lined with superb hemlock and magnificent hardwood trees, it is the handsomest spot in Pennsylvania, covered with original timber, and is also dotted with thirteen beautiful waterfalls. It is located about the corners of Wyoming, Luzerne and Sullivan counties, and may be approached by a good highway route. Detail information can be supplied by The District Forester, Dushore, Pa. 5. Alan Serger Forest Recreation Park—This grove comprises about 100 acres of mature hardwoods, mixed with hemlock and a few original white pine, located near Greenwood Furnace, Huntingdon county, between Broad Mountain and Bear Meadows. This original timber is included in the Logan State Forest, and will be preserved as a forest recreation park, which the public may enjo . Detail information can be supplied by The District Forester, Petersburg, Pa. ( . Forest Engineers’ Forest Park—This park embraces a considerable acreage of mature hardwood timber, located along Moore’s Run, Potter'county. It is included in a State Forest, and because of its sentimental and historical value will be preserved as a public recreation park. Detail information, can be supplied by The District Forester, Coudersport, Pa. 7. Joyce Kilmer Forest Recreation Park—This park embraces about 300 acres of mature hemlock and some white pine. It is situated on the northern slope and the summit of Paddy Mountain, in Union County. A State Highway passes near the park, which is viewed daily by thousands of motorists. Detail information can be supplied by The District Forester, Mifflinburg, Pa. 8. Snyder-Middleswarth Soldiers’ Park—This park includes a tract of 500 acres located on Swift Run, Snyder county, near Troxeb ville. It includes some of the finest and probably the largest group of hemlock standing anywhere in Pennsylvania. Among the hemlock are some superb white pine and pitch pine trees. The park has a charming location and is accessible. It is visited annually by thousands of motorists. Detail information can be supplied by The District Forester, Mifflinburg, Pa. 9. Michaux Pines—A grove of about 50 acres of mature short- 3 leaf pine stands near the Forest Academy, Franklin county. This is the most northern heavy stand of short-leaf pine in America, and embraces a considerable number of stately trees, some of them being 250 years old. This grove is located only a few miles from the Lincoln Highway. Detail information can be supplied by The District Forester, Mont Alto, Pa. Only the most important tracts of original timber are given in the above list. Other stands are found in Coxe’s Valley, Mifflin county, on Mount Logan, Clinton county, on the summit of Mount Riansares, Clinton county, along Swift Run, near New Germantown, Perry county, along Nine Mile Drive and on the Prouty Run, Potter county, along Pine Creek in Mifflin and Centre counties, and in Sweet Root Gap, about 6 miles south of Rainsburg, Bedford county. These tracts do not include all the original trees that are found within the State, for in every county of the Keystone State there remain many old trees that were at one time a part of the original forest. They bear mute evidence of struggle and successes. They are veterans of many battles. To learn to know them and to preserve them will be a credit to us and a blessing to future generations. 4 WHAT IS FORESTRY? George H. Wirt There are many definitions of forestry, but the very simplest one that may be given is that forestry is the proper handling of forest property. As a science forestry includes many things. It takes out of all of the various sciences what it needs to thoroughly study and understand the laws of tree growth, individually and collectively. The practice of forestry is the making use of knowledge concerning trees, in order to accomplish the purpose desired by the owner of forest property. The important function of (forestry, of } course, is that of growing trees for their products, the principal one of which is wood itself. As such, forestry is a land problem, just as agriculture is a land problem, and the forest constitutes a crop just as wheat constitutes a crop for the farmer. The people of Pennsylvania and the people of the United States cannot get along without wood, in fact, without wood civilization would disappear. The people in all of the Eastern States are now importing from great distances most of the wood which they use, notwithstanding the fact that they have millions of acres of land either producing nothing or producing only a small portion of the wood crops which they might produce under common sense management. The bringing of idle acres up to their full production is a very vital problem demanding solution at the hands of all of the citizens of the Atlantic States. The answer is the practice of forestry on such acres. As a business for any one individual, forestry demands a large acreage, and in order to grow large timber a long period of time is required, but the owner of even a fraction of an acre of land, which should grow trees, may put into effect much of the knowledge used by foresters and cut a crop in a few years, and in this way do his part towards maintaining the welfare of his community. There are sufficient foresters within easy reach and sufficient State Departments of Forestry to give to all private individuals whatever instructions and assistance they may need. The forest that is in its best condition for producing the highest quantity of wood is usually the forest which will furnish in the best manner all of the benefits which the community receives from the presence of a forest. Such a forest helps to maintain the local water supply, helps to temper the local climate, furnishes a place for recreation, a home for game, and for birds. It adds to the value, not only of the land upon which it stands, but of the community at large, and by reason of its growing trees, which should be cut when they reach merchantable size, furnishes labor to the people of the community and raw products to its industries. A few of the simple rules for the handling of small tracts of woodland are as follows: Keep the soil vell covered with trees. If grass grows in the woodlands it is an indication that too much sunlight reaches the ground under the trees. Planting along the borders and within the woods, or the encouragement of growth of seedlings is necessary. Of course, grazing should not be permitted. Tree weeds should be removed from the woods just as garden weeds are removed from the garden. This means that if a red maple is interfering with a white ash, the red maple should be cut. Dead trees, of course, should be removed and used. If a crooked tree of any species is interfering with a straight, sound tree, the crooked and defective tree should be removed. If a large, branchy tree is taking up too much room and crowding out tall, straight stemmed trees, it should be removed and young growth should be started in its place. Trees of large size should be removed because they are matured and their room should be given to rapidly growing young trees. Trees grow to be cut and used and not to be preserved standing. Whenever a tree is cut the future of the forest growth should be considered, and only such trees should be cut as will leave the woods in better condition after the removal than it was before. The one agency which is doing most to reduce and prevent the production of wood on the forest areas of the nation today, is fire. Ninety-nine per cent, of fires, which are started in woodlands, are started by the carelessness of human beings. Forest fires, therefore, are preventable, and must be prevented in order to guarante the timber necessities of the people who come after us. Protection of the woods from fire is the first step in caring for woodlands, for, if this protection is not assured, it is useless to attempt to do anything else toward bettering the conditions of the forest. If fires are kept out of the forests, it will give the natural forces a chance to crystalize into wood volume. It will then be possible for the forester or those working under his directions to control the forces of nature in such way that they will accomplish the greatest good in the shortest period of time. We need wood. There is a shortage of wood now. We must protect our forest from fire and we must reforest waste lands and handle carefully all forest lands in order to guarantee the future welfare of our State. 6 A HOME-MADE TREE NURSERY Mira L. Dock “Yet it is not to be imagined without the experience of it, what prodigious numbers (of trees) a very small spot of ground, well cultivated and destined for this purpose, would be able to furnish. Pliny tells us that no tree should be removed under two, or over three years of age.” Evelyn’s “Sylva.” Evelyn might have added “once a tree-grower always a tree grower,” for, after the habit of sowing seed has taken root it becomes fixed, and each spring the casualties of the year before are forgotten as the sower goes forth with fresh hope. My first seed-bed was a most casual affair, just two shallow furrows run by a trowel in the edge of a small garden bed in some newl}’ purchased land at Graeffenburg, in the South Mountain (half way between Chambersburg and Gettysburg). This is a region of fine white pine and hemlock, and in the autumn of HUH, when the seed crop of white pine was very large, we daily gathered cones, and in mid-November I sowed in the two drills the seed shaken out from the dried cones, which half filled a one pound candy box. They were lightly covered with earth, then with fallen leaves, and left to their fate. In May, 1002, they began to germinate from the 10th onward, and finally there were 1010 seedling pines to transplant to prepared ground in a corner of the kitchen garden. By the spring of 1004 there were two well made seed-beds ready, each four x sixty feet, running east and west, as all seed-beds should, enclosed by eighteen inch high, open lath fences to keep rabbits out, and with plenty of lath screens npade on the half and half plan. A lath and a space the same width, alternating, the lath laid on three foot strips of inch board and placed on top of the fencing. Rabbits were not the only nursery trouble, but birds soon found the seed-beds a delightful place, and 1 then abandoned the long beds and changed to beds twelve x four feet, with box frames, four inches above the top of the beds, and used wire screens of one-sixth of an inch mesh, two screens four x six feet to a bed. These are perfect defences against birds, but should not be larger than three by four feet for quick handling by one person. Burlap or heavy paper is placed on top until germination has started, when I change to lath screens. In my opinion two by four is a better size for a lath screen than three by four, for women to handle. Then a new trouble developed, deer trampling the open beds of the two year old trees and eating the best specimens, and a six foot chicken wire fence was placed around the seed and transplant nurseries, the box frames were removed from transplant beds, and instead two stakes were driven in at end corners with one stake midway at each side, to which poles were attached on which the lath frames rested. For large transplants in the open field, of Fir, or other shade liking species, I use chicken wire overhead on stringers, with branches of broad leafed trees placed on the wire to give shade. 7 For many years I planted too many species, as in 1907 when eight varieties of broad-leafed, and twelve of conifers were sown, and in 1912 when eighteen varieties of conifers alone were sown. By 1909 all of the first white pines had been given away or used for demonstration in talks on forest planting, or set out in unused open ground, where the largest group is now quite an impressive little wood. At that time close planting was rather advised and the trees were set only four feet apart, too close, I now think, for permanent planting. By 1912 I had three objectives, first the growing of native trees for forest planting to replace poorer species cut out for fuel or other purposes. Second to raise specimen trees of nonnative species for ornamental planting, and third to raise every variety of every species of conifer which would grow in our climate. Seeds of white pine, tulip tree and white and rock oak were gathered on our own land usually, but all other species were purchased from dealers in this country or Europe—from the latter by grammes (3l 2 ounces) the smallest quantity sold by foreign tree seedsmen. In this country conifer seeds were usually purchased by ounces, and- nuts and acorns by the pound. In my opinion there is very urgent necessity for extensive planting of tulip trees, most of the hickories, white, red, and rock oaks in all localities where they formally abounded, but, the)'’ are all too popular with deer as food, to advise any planting of these species in any portion of our State where deer preserves are established. In South Mountain, where there is great difference between night and day temperature, pines give the best results, spruce are very difficult in summers of great humidity, and firs have the most determined objection to living through their first summer, of any species I have ever tried. A new enemy of tree planters has appeared in the propensity of motorists to steal every attractive young tree they see. so planting near much used highways is a risk. Yet, in spite of casualties running from total failure of germination to the utter destruction by deer of entire plantations, I continue to raise trees, hoping in time to see tree planters protected from thieves in automobiles, and from the herds of deer which now roam our mountains. The lure of tree planting is one of the happiest delusions with which gardeners can entertain themselves through the winters, for with spring conies renewed hope that this year we shall escape the mishaps of last year and that this time all of our trees will grow. S ON THE SHANGHAI-HANGCHOW RAILWAY Caroline G. Peeler When you take a trip in China you carry both food and water, if you are wise. In order to make the 7.30 train, I rose when it was still dark, “Dosovou” had ready for me a breakfast sufficient for two, a bottle of water, oranges, and food for my next meal on the train. He, himself, called a ricksha and tucked me in carefully, my luggage stowed fore and aft. A 200 mile trip on a Chinese railway all alone means that your senses must be keenly alert—ears, eyes and hand—for only by means of motions could one make herself understood, .unless by chance English is spoken. So, from the time I bought my “one-piece” ticket, second-class missionary rate, $2.30 going, $3.10 returning, I began to feel those thrilly creeps one gets over a brand new pleasant experience. Fortunately, the cars were so crowded that there was no seat for me in the second- class carriage, so I was taken into the dining car to sit on the only seat at the front end of the car, facing the dining table in the middle, with six chairs surrounding it. At this table a continuous stream of hungry ones took their turns, and if you want to read character, watch people eat! First came a high class Chinese girl, with her hair in bangs, and long drop earrings of pearl and jade. The Chinese women wear no hats. She was smoking a cigarette, and on her long tapering fingers were handsome jewelled rings. She drank tea and smoked leisurely. She looked as dainty in her coatee of rich brocade of gray, blue, and lavender and trousers of pearl colored silk as tho she were at home and not in a smoky train. Next came a father with two boys, richly dressed in black brocade coats that reached to their heels. They ordered foreign food—fried chicken, white bread and butter, marmalade arid tea, and ate with forks! After they had finished their chicken the boy brought in towels, wrung out of scalding hot water, and they washed their faces and hands. No feast is complete without the hot water towel wash; at a real feast the water is perfumed. I have almost come to believe that the reason why the Chinese have such fine textured, smooth skin is because they have' these hot water face baths. Last summer, at the Chinese theatre, when the thermometer rose to 100, boys went through the audience with hot water tow'els. To facilitate the passing, however, one boy would throw towels across the theatre to another, so that huge white towel balls were flying back and forth and you glimpsed the play between them as best you could. The face washing kept up the entire time. Now I look out of the window at the scenery. Emerald green fields of newly planted rice, cultivated by men and buffalos walking ankle deep in water. Canals everywhere, between which the fields are laid off in geometric lines to the last inch, except where the grave mounds, or small hillocks, are located. Some of these are so old that the tops are covered with large trees, while the newer ones afford grazing for a lone buffalo. He looks like a graven image standing at the peak of a grave mound, his head, with its 9 huge horns, lowered; no movement except the chewing- of his cud. The size of the grave mound varies, depending upon the number of wives. One of the Emperors had 500 wives, who were compelled to be buried with him; it made quite a mountain. Now flashes by a camel-back bridge over a canal and often across the fiat fields looms up a large red sail. You strain your eyes to catch the least glimpse of this, for you are certain it is sailing right across the grain. Then come the mulberry orchards, first an isolated one, then more and more, until on each side of the railway are groves of them, with men and women gathering leaves in large baskets. Two baskets are slung at each end of a bamboo pole and carried thus to the hungry silk worms in the sheds, whose eating sounds like a rushing wind. These orchards are finely cultivated between the ro .vs and planted with soy or buckwheat. The low trees are often shorn entirely of leaves. Now I see some fields, from which thp first crop of grain has been harvested, and fresh seed just planted. It is easy to know that seed has been put in. for there are the marks of the bare feet that have trod it in; myriads of toot prints up and down, back and forth, close together, one man following after the other, the first man making a normal step, the next a step behind, and so on over the entire field. No land is ever idle, rotation of crops, the muck from the canals, and human fertilization supplying plant food. For this reason we cannot ever eat celery or lettuce or any raw vegetable, the soil is so full of typhoid and dysentery germs. But for all that, we love China—it is like a verse I saw at the movie last week: Oh, take me back to Siberia, The land of measles and diphtheria. Now my attention is called to the dining table again, for the three train hands have come in to eat. The rice is served in a small, wooden tub; they order fish, pork, a dozen fried eggs and several quarts of tea. They put the rice in large bowls and pile on all the other stuff indiscriminately. The teapot is passed around to wash it down, and they drink out of the spout! This is why we carry our own teapots along. Two of the men start without waste of time to shovel the food in with chopsticks, making sucking noises above the noise of the train. One of them bows his head and returns thanks, being a Christian. In ten minutes that food has vanished and they are off. Some plain women now come in to order rice and tea, having a lunch basket with accessories. They are dressed in trousers and coat of plain black cotton cloth. An American lady gets on and sits beside me; I say to her, “how strange to see the Chinese women in trousers and the men in skirts.” “You mean,” she said, “how strange to see our men in trousers and the women in skirts,” and I think I agreed with her. The camphor tree is in bloom and the pale green, feathery bamboo bows to us in the breeze. It is worth a trip to China to see the bamboo in moonlight. You feel like Alice in Wonder- 10 land. The canals are teeming with life, large families of children swarming over the tiny one-room sampans they call home. Now and then one drops overboard, but there are plenty more! In five hours I arrive in Hangchow, the beautiful, where I am met by my friend. We jump into rickshas and race thro the electric lighted streets, so narrow at times that a fat man has to draw in his corporosity to escape a bump. Hangchow was the summer play place of the Emperors, reached by canal from Peking. The longer portion of the Grand Canal was made in the sixth century, A. D., and it is almost 900 miles long. In places it is often 100 feet wide, with sides frequently faced with stone. Fine stone bridges, memorial arches, and lofty pagodas are its gems of architecture and over all is the wonderful atmospheric coloring with the vivid greens, reds, tans, indigo blues and browns, from which, no doubt, inspiration was supplied for the embroideries and pictures on silk. In the beautiful lake at Hangchow is the Emperor’s Island, connected by causeway to the mainland. We went across the lake in a boat, paddled thro beds of lotus and lilies ready to bloom. In an hour we go ashore, walk up several hundred stone steps to see a Buddhist temple. We enter the quaint garden inside the dragon wall, going thru the moon door; the pathways are mosaic designs of dragons, stars, fish and lotus, worked out with pebbles of various colors, broken brick, small stones and bits of white crockery,- the passing of centuries having mellowed the whole effect delightfully. You cannot imagine the quiet loveliness of that big, age-old temple! In a corner, all alone, was a worshipper, kneeling in front of a table with a book open before him. On one side of him was a large cuplike bell (a bell upside-down) ; on his other side was a smaller bell. The priest struck the large bell with a piece of wood, the end covered with a wad of cloth, one stroke of which made that metal cup sing with reverberations for five minutes. While this one was singing, he struck the smaller one, then his own voice rose in rich tones, chanting the words slowly and in perfect harmony with big and little bell cups. As we went down the valley we could hear the nn+sic of the temple for a long distance. Thru the valley we walked for five miles, coming out to a sea wall, thousands of years old, and 150 miles long. Again we climbed the hills to get a view of villages, trees, temples, arches and mountains across the river—it looked like the Bay of Naples away back in old China. 11 ALUMNAE NOTES Upon request the following reports were - received from the graduates of the School of Horticulture for the year 1921: Booth, Barbara, Class of 1920. “From the middle of March to Thanksgiving Day I was at Movilla Gardens, Ilaverford, Pa. My chief work was seeing that all the varieties of iris, peonies, phlox, lilacs, hemerocallis, delphiniums, climbing roses, aquilegias, oriental poppies and astilbes were correctly labeled, and their locations recorded in a card index system. I also pruned the roses, sowed and transplanted delphiniums and aquilegias, filled orders, cultivated the rare varieties of iris, helped select the iris, peony and poppy blooms for exhibition in the Main Line Flower Shows of the Penns lvania Horticultural Society, cultivated a collection of rock plants.’’ Broadbent, Marjorie W., Class of 1920. “I have been fitting myself as .landscape architect and gardener at Lowthorpe School, hoping to finish here in June, with a position in view. This is a splendid place to continue horticultural studies and to equip as landscape architect after completing the two } ears’ course at Ambler.” Carter, Louise, Class of 1916. In charge of work upon the estate of Mrs. Clement Griscom, at Tallahasse, Fla. Dorothy and Katharine Cloud, Class of 1916. “The work of the past season was filled with varied and interesting experiences. It was our third year in business for ourselves as consulting horticulturists and landscape gardeners. The actual work we had last year consisted in the supervision of large country places, where we had entire charge of directing all the work and placing the orders. This comprised: Planning the flower and vegetable gardens, outlining the daily work for the gardeners, overlooking the lawns, shrubbery, greenhouses, gardens and general upkeep of the place. In some cases where the head gardener as competent, our services were required to supervise only the flower gardens and shrubbery borders. This branch of our business, together with our consultation work, always continues throughout the season. Our landscape work comes with a rush during the planting seasons. The greatest number of calls in this line were for making, and doing over, gardens and perennial borders.” Cohen, Katharine, Class of 1917. “My news is not particularly entertaining, being again this year merely an account of my activities here at Cornell. This is my third year in the School of Landscape Art, but, in our department, they count a professional landscape architect's career as necessitating some eight years of college, office work and travel before he or she can hang out a shingle. So I don’t feel very far on my way yet, though I do expect to undertake jobs of my own long before the expiration of those eight ear of training, and largely shall I attribute any premature capabilities to my good practical training at Ambler, and to the outside work 12 that I did during the war. However, landscape art is a decidedly difficult profession, and it requires a lot of broad knowledge, with ks'ramifications into the fields of architecture, art, engineering and science. Hence, I must report myself as still a Cornell “Stude,” very busy, very enthusiastic, and never for a minute wavering from my ambition to be a downright good landscape architect! Greetings to all my fellow Alumnae of the School of Horticulture. ” David, Emily, Class of 1916. “Truth triumphs! It is with deep regret I feel obliged to confess that my horticultural achievements for 1921 will have to be reported ‘among the missing.’ Though I insist, oh gentle scoffer, that my interest has not waned. May I remind you all of the ‘Garden Days,’ they proved so tremendously popular last year that the School is planning to continue them again this spring. Watch for further notice of plan and dates. This year’s alumnae meeting was especially stimulating and interesting. We feel that acquaintance and association with others in a chosen field tend greatly to increase individual effectiveness, and one of the principal purposes of the Association is to provide such companionship for its members.” George, Beatrice, Class of 1918. “There is really very little to say except that I’ve been studying landscape architecture at Cornell, spending last summer here in the ‘third term’ work, especially for our course, comprising out-pf-ioor sketching, floriculture, and a study of plant materials.” Gerhard, Ru'h A., Class of 1918. “My work during the year 1921, consists of the following: In charge of the Department of Gardening at the National .Park Seminary, Forest Glenn, Md. Student at the Summer School of Cornell University (subjects: Nature Study’ Ornithology, Psych- ology).” MR. AND MRS J. C. REIS, of Pleasant Plains, Staten Island, announce the marriage of their daughter, Sarah G., to Mr. Rudolph Bergen, of New York City, Sunday, July 2, 1922. 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