The Superintendent of Public Instruction, Mr. Draper, has announced the vote for the State flower as follows: golden-rod, 81,308 ; rose, 79,666 ; daisy, 33.603 ; violet, 31,176; pansy, 21,202; lily, 16,438; lily of the valley, 11,626; trailing arbutus, 7,888; buttercup, 6,127: scattering, 29,045 ; total, 318,079. The scattering votes were distributed through 121 different varieties.

Cypripedium acaule in its native habitat varies in size and quality very much. In pine barrens, so-called jack plains, where even the white pine will not grow, it is a little stunted thing. In the leaf-mould of the pine forest, partly shaded it grows to finer size, and is quite beautiful. It seems always to grow in sand, though it takes kindly to garden treatment, and, like any of the family, it is easily transplanted, The Cypripedium parviflorum grows generally in clayey loam, or stiff clay. But I never have found it so plentiful as at Powers, Michigan, where it grows in the sphagnum moss and wet muck of a tamarack swamp, associated with Cypripedium specta-bile. - C. L. Mann.