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

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rieties. It also entitles to free admission to any exhibition in which the American Rose Society directly participates. A valuable book on outdoor roses is written by G. C. Thomas, Jr., entitled “Practical Book on Outdoor Roses.” GLEANINGS New officers have been elected in both Senior and Junior classes. We are proud to say that Miss Sarah Fogg and Miss Eloise Torrens performed the duties of their respective offices so well that they have been unanimously re-elected. Miss Sarah Fogg fills the office of president and Miss Eloise Torrens is our competent secretary. As to the Junior class, Miss Hester Fogg will preside as president and Miss Julia Clark will act as secretary. Miss Julia Clark gave us a very interesting lecture with lantern slides on Yellowstone Park. Our first “Get-together” meeting was held January 25. Miss Pearl Martin rendered several vocal selections. Then we were supplied with a “Hit or Miss” entertainment by Vera Green and Ima Oldone. The humor afforded gave evidence of the extemporaneousness of the performance. Refreshments came to top this and, believe me, they touched the spot. “The Florist Shop,” a one-act comedy, was given on December 13, for the Senior Class, following the banquet. The plants from our greenhouse gave an appropriate setting to the play. This play was repeated February 17 at the second “Get-together” meeting. Some very clever living pictures completed the program of entertainment. Delightful refreshments wound up the evening. High Juniors! Take Notice! The Honor Scholarship offered annually by Miss Marion Reilly, a member of the Board of Directors, will be awarded September 1923, for excellent average in studies, to a member of the Junior Class who entered September 1922. Only such hens as make regular contributions to the egg basket have any show for their lives under the new regime. Martha Twining is again with us and you can imagine how glad we are. Mr. and Mrs. Raymond C. Dikeman are receiving congratulations on the birth of a daughter, Elinor Louise. 19

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highly developed modern rose. The original single types—native of America and Asia, like Rosa setigera or Prairie rose, Rosa multiflora, Rosa rugosa, the Damask rose, the Persian yellow, the Bank sian rose as growing in gardens and parks of New England, the Cherokee rose as growing profusely in the woods and gardens of the South, the Wichuraiana hybrid—all were given just as much prominence with their simplicity and abundance of blooms, as members of the Hybrid Tea class, or roses belonging to the Tea Rpses or the Hybrid Perpetuals. Caroline Testout, a hybrid tea rose, was shown brightening up the streets of Portland, Oregon, in showy solid beds of lustrous pink blooms. Marechal Neal roses grown to perfection over an arbor at Thomasville, Ga., undisturbed by the chilling winds of the North, Bridesmaid roses and Brides, both of the Tea rose type, effectively grown as standards. Lady Ashtown, a hybrid Tea rose with its glowing pink, Gloire de Dijon, cheering up homes in'Portland, Oregon, Gruss and Teplitz, the well-known hybrid tea rose with its bright red flowers—all could be seen. The Rambler roses in the various pictures rivaled each other in color and sturdiness of growth: The Dorothy Perkins, the Yellow Rambler, the Crimson Rambler, American Pillar, Tausend-schoen, Pink Roamer, each in turn took our eye and suggested new ways of using them in the garden, around sun-dials, as screen or for flanking the driveway. The Baby Ramblers were not left out in this gay array of roses. Their dwarf habit of growth and their ever-blooming quality during the summer makes them suitable for . planting in borders and around the house, serving the double purpose of tying the house to the ground and to brighten up the surroundings with their profusion of bloom. Roses of more recent date were shown in the last slides. There were the following climbers which attracted our attention: Dr. W. Van Fleet, Rose Alida Lovett, also a seedling of Dr. Van Fleet introduced by J. T. Lovett in 1917, Paul’s Scarlet Climber. Evangeline, with large single white flower with tips of petals pink, Rose Moyesii, introduced from China in 1910. Of the new hybrid tea roses the following were seen: Pilgrim, a bright rose pink rose, introduced in 1920; Rose Premier, a seedling of Ophelia and Russell, introduced in 1918; Los Angeles, Radiance and Red Radiance. Rosa Hugonis, the attractive single yellow briar rose, which was originated in Kew, England, in 1899, and lends charm to any garden where it grows, was also shown. The lecture was rendered by Miss Seamann, our instructor in Floriculture. Miss Seamann called attention to the interesting-chapter, “The Story of the Modern Rose,’’ in the book by Ernest H. Wilson, in which the reader is taken to the native places of the various original types of the rose and is told about their characteristics and their history of distribution over the world. The privileges of an American Rose Society membership were also pointed out. Every member of this society receives the annual American Rose Manual, which contains valuable information on latest experiments with roses with regard to culture and new va- 18

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Miss Florence Miller entertained in honor of our three new students, Miss Marguerite Meyers, Miss Florence Slayton and Miss Hester Fogg, and the new member of our faculty, Mr. Kulirt, at tea, Sunday afternoon, January twenty-first. The better half of the Cool House has been devoted to annual cut flowers. Lettuce is brightening the corner on the “east side.” Miss Anna Harris a Senior at State College, is spending six weeks at our school, supplementing her course by observing our methods of work. The Fruit Department has cleared out the forest and now we can, at last, find the fruit trees. We had a radio demonstration Saturday evening, February third, the set being installed temporarily by R. M. Hallowell, Inc., of Ambler. We were very glad to have the opportunity of hearing it. Mr. Hallowell also furnished entertainment by giving us several moving pictures. The retiring staff of WISE-ACRES voted to give the sum of two hundred fifty dollars to the school, this amount to be used as a scholarship. OUR ALUMNAE K. Irene Geiser is with Pennocks, Philadelphia. She has taken a position as a stenographer with the State Forestry Department at Mifflinburg, Pa., and she also plans to have cold frames and raise cut flowers. R. Elizabeth S. Swing is starting in business for herself at her home in Coatesville, Pa. She plans to raise annual plants and cut flowers and has already started in with some cold frames. Jessie Elinor Matthews has a position with the Logan Nurseries under Miss Mary Wright, a sister of Miss Letitia E. Wright. Jr., our instructor in bee keeping. “Silas” is going in for rock garden plants and perennials. Isobel Marquedant is assisting in the Pomology Department in the Illinois State College of Agriculture. Virginia de Sternack is married to Mr. Oliver P. Morton and is living at Wellesley, Mass. Dora Van Horn is taking some special courses at Columbia. Helen Kille is running her father’s greenhouse at Vineland, N. J., during his illness. She hopes to finish her course here later. Miss Irene B. Nicolson, former instructor in Floriculture, and Miss Amy Thurston, a graduate of the school, are building a greenhouse and going into the florist business at Litchfield, Conn. Eleanor Fullerton is married to Donald Van Dyck Fergeson. She is going into business with her husband. They plan to specialize in tomatoes and small bush fruits. 20