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and full students will be advised to live in tlie house. 

 Short courses on special subjects will also be arranged, 

 and it is hoped will prove attractive and useful to some 

 who may want to specialise along certain lines. 



The tuition and board fees will be kept down to as 

 low a figure as possible, and it is hoped that there will be 

 endowed scholarships. 



The subjects to be offered at once are : — 



Flower and kitchen gardening, care of lawns and 

 shrubbery, orchards, poultry raising, bee-keeping, garden 

 carpentry, marketing of produce. 



Later there may be added : — 



Forestry, maple sugar growing, preserving of fruits 

 and vegetables, and such other subjects as may be called 

 for. 



There is in Pennsylvania no other school of this char- 

 acter. The Pennsylvania State College at State College, 

 Centre County, offers valuable and excellent instruction, 

 but, Hke the other state colleges, lays most of its stress 

 on agriculture rather than on horticulture, and gives great 

 attention (and necessarily so) to experimental farm work, 

 and to seed and soil tests. Incidentally we hope to profit 

 by these experiments and to help to spread abroad know- 

 ledge of the improvements and better methods which their 

 experience may have proved beneficial. 



We shall be glad to enter into communication with others 

 interested in the subject, and we look for the interest and 

 support of Pennsylvanians and many others. 



Miss Jane B. Haines, Secretary and Treasurer, Chelten- 

 ham, Pa. 

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