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

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K N T It A N GE I) O () It W A Y School of Horticulture for Women Ambler, Pennsylvania 19 2 4 SPRING COURSE—12 Week April—June SUBJECTS Fruit Growing Floriculture Lansdscape Gardening Poultry Bees Vegetable Gardening Woody Ornamental Plants Farm Crops and Animals SUMMER COURSE August—4 Week SUBJECTS Floriculture. Vegetable Gardening. Fruit Growing, Canning and Preserving 1924 DIPLOMA COURSE Two Years of 40 Weeks Each. Entrance in January and September Subjects Floriculture Soils and Fertilizers Fruit Growing Landscape Gardening Day Students are admitted to all Vegetable Gardening (Elementary) Junior Classes, to classes which ex- Rotany Zoology, Economic tend only through one year, and to Woody Ornamental Carpentry Senior Classes upon passing an exam- Plants Farm Crops ination. Rural Economy The Farm Woodland School Gardening Business Methods Electives Poultry, Bees, Canning and Preserving. Care o Animals. Practical 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 Iteglst ration Etc, $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 LOUISE CARTER. Director

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J. M. KIRK Sanitary Plumbing Gas and Steam Heating Pumping Machinery of all kinds. Windmills, Gas Engines, Etc. Office: 304 Butler Avenue Both Phones Ambler, Pa. Notary Public Auto Licenses I. K. B. HANSELL INSURANCE Ambler, Pennsylvania Furniture Bedding Rugs H. J. DAGER Real Estate Ambler, Penna. Repair Work a Specialty Capacity—90 Cars Battery Re-Charging Gas—Oils KEASBY MATTISON CO.’S GARAGE AMBLER, PA. General Accessories Both’Phones WILLIAM PENN INN Gwyedd, Pa. Dinners served daily from 6.30 until 8 o’clock Sunday: 1 until 2.30 o’clock Special Dinners and Lunches served Phone, North Wales 45-R-2 REES C. ROBERTS Apothecary, Inc. The best in drug store merchandise AMBLER A. LAPETINA 427 Butler Avenue Ambler

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TABLE OF CONTENTS May, 1924 Thoreau’s Spring Prayer. Successive Crops of the Wise-Acres. “The Idle Rich.” Some Gladiolus Experiments. The Department of Botany. Miss Carter's Letter. The New York Flower Show. Saturdays—April and May. Two Tuesday Afternoon Lectures. “A Manual of Cultivated Plants.” Gleanings. Exchanges. The Compost Pile.