THE PLANT WORLD 191 



Editorial. 



Owing to the absence of Dr. Knowlton, our Home Garden and Green- 

 house department is limited this month to a few notes, thus giving space 

 for reviews of two important books. In the next issue will appear an 

 article on landscape gardening for a small home, illustrated by diagrams. 

 We are always glad to receive horticultural notes from our readers for 

 publication in this department. 



The study of practical forestry in New York State has received a 

 severe setback on account of the veto by Governor Odell of the appro- 

 priation for the State College of Forestry at Cornell, and the consequent 

 retirement of its able director. Dr. B. E. Fernow. It is probable that the 

 malice and private grudges of landholders in the extensive timber lands 

 of the Adirondacks, where the experimental forestry operations were con- 

 ducted, have contributed to this deplorable outcome. In striking contrast, 

 and, as it were, in rebuke to her sister State, Maine has just voted $2,500 

 for the establishment of a professorship of forestry in the State College. 



In the death of Dr. Augustin Gattinger, of Tennessee, another promi- 

 nent contemporary of the late Dr. Asa Gray has passed away, and we are 

 reminded more forcibly of the fact that the botany of to-day is in the 

 hands of a new school of iconoclastic tendencies. Dr. Gattinger was an 

 untiring student of the flora of his State, and published several works, 

 besides contributing large numbers of specimens to his correspondents 

 by gift and exchange. His name is commemorated in many species of 

 flowering plants. 



As MANY of the manuscripts submitted to us for publication are 

 accompanied by photographs, it may not be amiss to give a word of 

 advice to those intending to favor us with their contributions. As a 

 general rule it may be said that photographs are only thoroughly satis- 

 factory for illustrative purposes when they are limited to scenery or to 

 plants and flowers at close range. A photograph of a bush or a group 

 of herbs even six feet away usually appears as a dark mass of varying 

 intensity, and the half-tone plate does not do justice to the subject. It 

 would be far better if our contributors would furnish drawings, and of 

 these we could insert many more as text cuts than would be possible 

 with the photographs, each of which must occupy a full-page plate. 



Photographs for reproduction are preferably unmounted, and should 

 be printed rather strongly on glossy paper, but should not be deeply 

 toned. Line drawings should always be larger than they are to appear 

 in the figure ; and photographs also are in general the better for slight 

 reduction, though sometimes they stand enlargement well. 



