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

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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.

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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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WISE-ACRES Vol. VIII May, 1924 No. 3 Published Quarterly by the Students of the School of Horticulture for Women, Ambler, Pa.—Louise Carter, Director Entered at Ambler P. O. as Second-Class Matter Under Act of March 3. 1879. STAFF Editor-In-Chief, Esther Cummings Asst. Editor, Elizabeth Pedigo Adv. Mgr., Helen M. Tripner ASST. Adv. Mgr., Flora M. Vare Business Manager, Hester B. Fogg One Dollar a Year Single Copy, Twenty-five Cents THOREAU’S SPRING PRAYER “A mild spring day. I must hie to the Great Meadows. The air is full of bluebirds. The air is as deep as our natures. Is the drawing in of this vital airattended with no more glorious results than I witness? I wish to begin this summer well; to do something in it worthy of it and of me; to transcend my daily routine and that of my townsmen; to have my immortality now, that it be in the quality of my daily life; to pay the greatest price, the greatest tax of any man in Concord, and enjoy the most. I will give all I am for my nobility. 1 will pay all my days for my success. I pray that the life of this spring and summer may ever lie fair in my memory. May I dare as 1 have never done! May I persevere as I have never done! May I purify myself anew as with fire and water, soul and body! May my melody not be wanting to the season! May I gird myself to be a hunter of the beautiful, that naught escape me! May I attain to a youth never attained. I am eager to report the glory of the universe; may I be worthy to do it; to have got through with regarding human values, so as not to be distracted from regarding divine values. It is reasonable that a man should be something worthier at the end of the year than he was-at the beginning ' From Thoreau’s Journal (1852).