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

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1. “A Farewell.” 2. Editorial Word. 3. “ English Gardens.” 4. “A Garden.” 5. “ Bermuda Through the Eyes of a Horticulturist.” 6. News from a Graduate. 7. “ Some Aspects of the Relation between Horticulture and Landscape Gardening. 8. A Tribute to a Graduate. 9. Our Latest Bovine Adventures. 10. Hints from “ Better Plants.” 11. Exchanges. 12. Gleanings. 13. Compost Pile.

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KN TEANCE DOOR WA Y School of Horticulture for Women Ambler, Pennsylvania 1924-25 Spring Course March 1st SUBJECTS Fruit Growing Floriculture Lansdscape Gardening Poultry Rees Vegetable Gardening Woody Ornamental Plants Farm Crops and Animals SUMMER COURSE August—4 Weeks SUBJECTS Floriculture, Vegetable Gardening, Fruit Growing, Canning and Preserving 1925 DIPLOMA COURSE Two Years of 40 Weeks Each. Entrance in March and September Floriculture Fruit Growing Vegetable Gardening Rotany Woody Ornamental Plants Rural Economy School Gardening Subjects Soils and Fertilizers Landscape Gardening Drafting Zoology, Economic Carpentry Farm Crops The Farm Woodland Business Methods Electives Day Students are admitted to all Junior Classes, to classes which extend only through one year, and to Senior Classes upon passing an examination. Poultry, Bees, Canning and Preserving, Careo.' 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 Registration Fee, $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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4 WISE-ACRES £ Vol. IX January 1925 No. 2 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 Business Manager, Alice I. Legters One Dollar a Year Single Copy, Twenty-five Cents A Farewell My poor little garden, once lovely and gay, Lies brown and bedraggled. In play Came the Frost King; with fiery dart Has taken your beauty, and broken your heart. Where once were the larkspurs, majestic and blue, Forget-me-nots, pansies, bright marigolds, rue, Where brilliant-hued dahlias looked smilingly down— There's nothing but ruins, dull, withered and brown. My poor little garden, I love you so well Your beauty enmeshed me. Through it's magic spell I loved every leaf, every flower you bore— You're gone, little garden, I'll see you no more. No more? Ah, the comfort of Nature is this: After Autumn's farewell comes the welcoming kiss Of April, whose rainbows are broken, to pass Into hyacinths, tulips, and emerald grass. —Mrs. C. W. Lawson. Editorial Word Since—as we remarked in our last issue, winter is the time to plan the garden for next year, we are making this our Landscape Number. Nature is just resting, and giving us time to draw breath before the labors of another summer, and the beauties of the new gardens are with us again. It is something to congratulate the School about, that the course in Landscape Gardening has been extended to the full 5