Notes 
The School of Agriculture at Ambler, Pennsylvania, has during the 
past summer, given two excellent short courses in practical horticulture 
for amateurs. A third Fall Course begins on September nth, con- 
tinuing for ten weeks until November 17th. The subjects for study 
include Flower Gardening, Fruit Growing, Vegetable Gardening, 
Bee-keeping, Canning and Preserving, and Poultry Work. There is 
also a class in elementary Landscape Gardening and Drafting which 
begins on September 14th. 
A Jam Kitchen also has been established where fruits, vegetables, 
honey, marmalade, pickles, etc., may be purchased. 
These courses have been designed especially to meet the present 
food emergency. Each course consists of lectures and practical work. 
The excellent report on Roadside Planting Laws presented at the 
Annual Meeting by the Garden Club of Montgomery and Delaware 
Counties and read by their president, Mrs. Hughes, was compiled by 
Mrs. Robert E. Griffith of Haverford and Mrs. Rodman L. Page of 
Bryn Mawr, assisted by Mr. Griffith. These ladies are members of 
Dr. Warthin's Committee and will give information in regard to the 
report to those who wish details. 
Mr. Lee R. Bonnewitz, of Van Wert, Ohio, who is an enthusiastic 
member of the Peony Society, has printed an interesting little pamphlet 
describing the Peony Show held in Philadelphia in June and telling of 
his success with some of the newer varieties. 
More seeds of Mrs. Verplanck's Asiatic Campanula will be ready 
to ship in September. These are 25 cents a packet and are sold for 
the benefit of the Arnold Arboretum. They may be had direct from 
Mrs. W. E. Verplanck, Mt. Gulian, Fishkill-on-Hudson, N. Y., or 
after November 1st, 112 Mercer St., Princeton, N. J. 
"According to news from France, out of 700 regular employees of 
the firm of MM. Vilmorin-Andrieux et Cie., Paris, 400 have been 
called up. Of these, so far as is known, 43 have been killed, five are 
dead of disease contracted on active service, 14 are reported missing, 
and 27 are prisoners; 49 have been awarded the Croix de Guerre. 
From the beginning of the war the firm has remitted to the family of 
each of the married men under arms 50 francs for the wife and 15 
francs for each child (monthly). The amount of assistance dis- 
