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

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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

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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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THE COMPOST PILE 0 Who smelled a rat?? We had Ground Hog on the fourth of February! NOTICE!—New York has moved to the Middle West. (Latest bulletin from Boston.) (When Mr. S. was giving out the pamphlets)—“What did I have last. Hog Lice?” Information Wanted Just whereabouts in Missouri is that Kaw River? (Perhaps that’s where the homesteads are.) We are reminded every once in a while that we have an “Over Seas” nurse in our midst—Rube—since when has the Streptosolen been a Streptococcus? Suggestions From the Late Senior Class JANUARY and FEBRUARY—Prepare spray tank for dormant spray. Select a freezing cold day. Wash carefully and oil all parts. Request students to wear overalls and galoshes. (This is an ancient custom at the school which must not die out.) Each student is required to become proficient at cranking the engine of the spray tank. Forty cranks are necessary for passing. MARCH and APRIL—The special object of the course is to become familiar with all kinds of fruits. During the spring months import tropical fruits and spend three-quarters of all fruit time tasting. MAY—Sample strawberries two hours daily. Each student manages pickers five minutes a week. JUNE—Sample gooseberries and currants two hours daily (Into eacli life some rain must fall; some days must be dark and dreary.”) ' JULY—Sample raspberries, blackberries, wineberries, dewberries and earliest peaches, two hours daily. SEPTEMBER—Eat remainder of peach crop. Do a little promiscuous budding, now and then, especially patch-budding on pecans. OCTOBER—Sample grapes two hours daily. NOVEMBER—Eat apple crop, saving a few perfect specimens for the fairs. 21