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Ph} sicians at the Battle Creek Sanitarium, Michigan, jirescribe flow- 
ers for their patients just the same as they would order a massage or 
an application of electricity. The influence of flowers in lightening sor- 
row and suffering has always been recognized, but their employment as 
an actual remedy is recent. 
Missouri adopted the wild Crab Apple blossom as its State flower. 
The farmers of the State of Missouri are said to be spending at 
the rate of $25,000,000 a year on buildings. 
The city of Kalamazoo, Mich., established a municipal coal yard, 
where coal was sold to consumers at cost. 
Group insurance of employees is a new thing. It was adopted by 
the A. N. Pierson Co., early in the year. 
A stoppage of the service of outgoing mail to many foreign coun- 
tries, including Germany, Austria, Hungary, Luxemburg, Bulgaria, 
Servia, Montenegro and Turkey also parcel post to Belgium, Nether- 
lands, Norway, Sweden and Denmark was announced in Midsummer. 
A national arboretum was one of the things suggested in the annual 
A Large Percentage of 
Fire Losses Are Pre- 
ventable — Seek Out 
the Cause of Fires 
But Take Precaution 
Against Their Occur- 
rence 
address of John Watson, president of the American Ass’n of Nursery- 
men, at Philadelphia in June. 
A new label for express shipments was instituted as the result of 
the activities of Max Schling, the New York florist, in collaboration 
with the heads of the express companies. This label can be bought in 
quantities through Max Schling. 
A short history of the House of Vilmorin, seed merchants of Paris, 
appeared in the August, 1917, issue of the “Journal of Heredity.” 
The thirty-first annual convention of the American Cemetery Su- 
perintendents, was held at Barre, Vt., on Aug. 28-31. W. N. Rudd of 
Chicago was elected president, and W. B. Jones, superintendent Holly- 
wood Cemetery, Pittsburgh, Pa., re-elected secretary, and Wm. H. 
Atkinson, Riverview Cemetery, Princeton, N. J., vice-president. 
The New Country Life for June was largely devoted to Dahlias, 
and eight pages were devoted to Dahlia flowers in color. 
. A very destructive hail storm occurred in New England Aug. 20, 
doing much damage to crops and greenhouses. 
