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During the fiscal year 1916, there were distributed on congressional 
and miscellaneous requests, 12,417,972 paekages of vegetable seed, and 
3,754,870 packages of flower seed, or a total of 16,172,842 packages, 
each containing five packets of dift'erent kinds. There were also dis- 
tributed 14,202 packages of lawn grass seed, 819 packets of tobacco 
seed, 10,364 boxes of Narcissus and Tulip bulbs, and 96,000 Strawberry 
plants, comprising 16 varieties. 
British nurserymen and florists had a large meeting in London 
early in the year and petitioned the Government to take aU necessary 
steps to safeguard British horticulture from being undersold with 
Where Vegetables Replaced Flowers; One of Many Instances Throughout 
the Country 
products of foreign origin, in the event of a general commercial import 
tariff being adopted. 
The Bureau of Soils at Washington, D. C., in 1916 mapped in detail 
the various soils of 24,749,440 acres in 75 areas in 32 States. 
For correcting soil acidity, 1 ton of burned lime is practically 
equal to I 14 tons of slaked lime or 2 tons of ground limestone, in case 
all three forms are of equal grade of purity. 
In 1904 the actual cash road and bridge expenditure in the United 
States averaged slightly less than $28 per mile of rural roads. In 
1915 the cash road and bridge expenditure had increased to an average 
of $109 per mile of road. 
War shrines have become a feature of all parts of London and of 
