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

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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.

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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.

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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