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One very well-known New York man, who has a country place not 

 far from the city, out of pure love of beauty and a desire to afford pleasure 

 to the public, has planted the roadside with wild and cultivated flowers, 

 and lets masses of trailing flowers and vines from his own private grounds 

 fall over the wall that edges his place upon the public side. The sight- 

 seers have appreciated his kindness by rifling plant and shrub of every 

 blossom. And it is not the vulgar masses who do this, but people 

 driving in their own carriages. He has frequently met them, driving 

 away with their carriages heaped high with his flowers, planted for the 

 benefit of the whole public, but not for that of any particular person, 

 particularly when the person is able to buy his own flowers. The last 

 remark applies to those women who go up to Bronx Park, and seeking 

 some obscure corner where they are safe from observation, deliberately 

 dig up ferns for their jardinieres. Any person who is able to have a 

 jardiniere is able to buy a fern for it. And a fern transplanted from 

 the woods to an apartment house in this brutal fashion will not live any- 

 way. Ferns that will live should be secured from the greenhouse, where 

 the proper varieties for the purpose have been acclimated, and where the 

 salesman will give proper information as to the care of the plant. If 

 women are the offenders as to ferns, men destroy a great many more 

 plants by starting fires with their castaway matches. Many fires are 

 started in the Botanical Garden, and many plants destroyed, by the care- 

 lessness of smokers who walk there when the ground is covered with dry 

 leaves. — Minnie J. Reynolds in the New York Times. 



ANNOUNCEMENTS. 



As noted in the editorial column of this issue of The Plant World, 

 Mr. Pollard, the Secretary of the Society, will soon leave the U. S. 

 National Museum, to take up his new duties in Springfield. His address 

 will remain as heretofore, 1854 Fifth Street, Washington, D. C. 



Next month, in accordance with the requirements of our Constitution, 

 the list of official nominations for members of the Board of Managers 

 will be published. Members will then have the privilege of suggesting 

 additional names, which, if endorsed by a sufficient number, will be 

 added to the official ballot. Full details will be given when the list is 

 published. 



A number of our members are still several months in arrears for dues. 

 The publishers of The Plant World have been lenient in this matter 

 during the first year of the Society's existence, but they now positively 

 announce that the journal will not be sent to these members until the 

 arrearages are paid in full. 



