14 THE AMERICAN BOTANIST 



Trifolium Procumbens. — For three years I have 

 found the low hop clover upon cur lawn and at one other point 

 in this village. Until three years ago I had never seen the 

 plant though I have been studying the flora of this section for 

 over thirty years. — Orange Cook^ Chardon, Ohio. 



Postage on Specimens. — It may not be generally 

 known (but to the impecunious naturalist, at least, it is worth 

 knowing), that the Express Companies carry your specimens 

 for half a cent per ounce, as against the one cent charged by 

 U. S. Post. This, whether the destination is Mexico, or 

 Canada, or your next-door town. This route is not only safer 

 and more expeditious, but also allows for any amount of 

 written matter, which, under a strict construction of the postal 

 laws, is forbidden. If any controversy arises with your agent, 

 refer him to "Section D." — Rez'. J. Davis, Hannibal, Mo. 



Jingoism and the Price of Cabbage. — In these "pip- 

 ing times of peace" our martial legislators — who expect to re- 

 main at home in the event of any unpleasantness — are as 

 busily preparing for war as ever. During the ten years end- 

 ing with 1906 our government spent twenty hundred millions 

 of dollars for war and in the same time spent much less than 

 half of one hundred million for the development of agricul- 

 ture and then we are some of us silly enough to wonder at the 

 high cost of living. If things continue in this way much 

 longer we shall have to stop hunting for trouble with foreign 

 nations long enough to hunt something to eat for ourselves. 

 The farmer does not need a contribution in cash, being pretty 

 well fixed as it is, but he does need better roads and until he 

 gets them the cost of bringing his products to market will 

 continue to be added to the cost of living. It has been shown 

 by careful investigations, that with improved roads more than 

 1150 million dollars could be saved each year in the cost of 



