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Gardeners and Florists’ Annual for J9J8 
Senator Henry P. Hollis of New Hampshire, planned to introduce 
an amendment to the general revenue bill to make allowances for 
business losses actually sustained, in computing net income liable to 
taxation. 
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The President placed an embargo on a large number of articles 
of merchandise, forbidding their export except under license from the 
Government, partly to prevent their being sent to enemy countries and 
partly that this country might not suffer shortages in certain essential 
articles. The list of such articles was changed from time to time as 
circumstances necessitated. 
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Early in August the Post Office announced that parcel post service 
between this country and Greece had been suspended. 
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Due to war conditions, express regulations in New York, Chicago 
and Washington were put into effect by which the express companies 
would not call for packages any later than 5 p.m., or they might be 
left at the express offices not later than 6 p.m. 
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About tlie middle of August the new nursery law of Pennsylvania 
went into effect. It requires all persons selling trees to take out a 
State license. 
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School gardening is a feature of the curriculum of public 
schools, both in the country and the cities. There are several 
organizations, with more or less of a national scope, devoted 
to the teaching of gardening to children. 
School Gardening at Porto Rico, W. I. 
by Boys of the San Augustin School, Puerta de Ticrra under Rev. Chas. Sylvan Hoff 
