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On January 12 the second issue of the Journal of the Inter- 

 national Garden Club was issued. Hereafter the publication 

 will be issued quarterly in March, June, September and Decem- 

 ber. 



The British government has ordered one hundred thousand 

 kapok waistcoats for its sailors. This " vegetable wool," derived 

 from Bombax malaharicum, has been suggested as desirable also 

 for our own sailors. 



The War Emergency Board of the American Phytopathological 

 Society, which was organized at the Pittsburgh meeting during 

 the holidays, held a meeting in Washington, February 9-1 1. 

 The organization of this board is the result of a determination 

 on the part of plant pathologists to do their part in winning the 

 war. Certain problems of nation wide importance are being 

 handled. At the special meeting reports on these projects were 

 made. A census of all persons able to do pathological work is 

 being taken and encouraging progress was noted. Other projects 

 on Fungicides and Machinery, Emergency Research, Plant 

 Disease Survey, and Crop Loss Estimates were considered at 

 some length. Plant pathologists have in the war conditions a 

 great opportunity for service to the commonwealth, for there is 

 no more vital feature in maintaining maximum crop production 

 than that of the reduction of leakage due to crop diseases. The 

 board is working with all existing agencies of state and nation. 

 The members of the board are H. H. Whetzel, Cornell University; 

 F. D. Kern, The Pennsylvania State College; E. C. Stakman, 

 University of Minnesota; H. P. Barss, Oregon Agricultural 

 College; H. W. Barre, Clemson College; G. H. Coons, Michigan 

 Agricultural College: and G. W. Lyman, U. S. Department of 

 Agriculture, 



Charles E. Faxon, the assistant director of the Arnold Arbore- 

 tum died early in February at the age of 73. He was known 

 throughout the country as a botanical illustrator, having made 

 hundreds of notable drawings for Sargent's Sylva and many 

 other books. 



