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

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expressed his sorrow, supposing the boys were accomplices. “Na, na, my lord,” said the gardener. “Ma laddie's nae a thief, but I just put him there for the symmetry.” “You can tell a Senior, but you cannot tell her much in safety.” Miss Seemann’s favorite song, entitled, “Weeds,” runs as follows: “ How you gonta keep 'em down on the farm, After they’ve gone to seed? How you gonta keep ’em from doing harm, Floating around, And cumb’ring the ground? How you gonta keep ’em out of the feed? That’s the mystery! You’ll have to use the cultivator, rake and plow, Or turn the pasture over to the sheep and cow. That’s the way to keep ’em down on the farm, So they can’t go to seed.” 21

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the British Empire, where Miss Barber was assisting. Good food and great fun! Thanksgiving was a pleasant day here. Several went to Church. Dickie's sister, Miss Dickerman, visited us again this year. We were threatened with stewed prunes, hash, and rice pudding for dinner, but Miss Barber rose nobly to the occasion and we had a wonderful meal. Compost Pile It was almost- too bad to correct the linotyper's error in setting up our last issue. He headed one article—“My Homemade Road. Assistance to the cross-word-puzzlists:— Obsoctuous—found in floriculture notes. Invigorations—Mr. Kaiser's famous “Fla. to Va., “fol. and hab., “inconspic., etc. Miss B. is sure that “An Australian bird in three letters, is not a “kangaroo. New Varieties which might be termed Horticultural:— Yellow Prince—calendulas. Asparagus spenduli. Asa—the family name of the maples. This item should really go in the “Book Review, but we had no others to mention there. Mr. Kaiser assures us that an excellent book to study is the one called “Our Native Orchids, by Charles Dana Gibson. Another Floriculture note — “Harvesting of Horehound. Lick leaves in summer only lightly. Miss B. wants Carbona for her aquarium. (It isn't far wrong, either, for Mrs. Wacker was able to give her Cabomba with little puzzling.) Extracts from old Wise-Acres:— “How to tell the flowers from the weeds: Pull them up by the roots. If they are flowers that will be the last of 'em; if weeds, only the beginning. “In the following incident is brought out rather forcibly the extreme idea of balance and symmetry once dominant in gardeners. Lord Selkirk walking on his terrace, in his garden in St. Mary’s Isle, which had a summer house at either end, found in one of these a boy imprisoned for stealing apples, and in the other, a son of his gardener, about the same age, looking out with a doleful countenance. Meeting the father, Lord Selkirk 20

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