THE PLANT WORLD 



A MONTHLY JOURNAL OF POPULAR BOTANY. 



F. H. KNOWLTON, Ph.D., Editor, U. S. National Museum, Washington, D. C. 



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The Editor-in-Chief of this journal will spend three months in 

 paleobotanical work in Washington, Oregon and California. During 

 his absence the journal will be conducted by Mr. Charles Louis Pol- 

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 should be addressed to him at the U. S. National Museum, Washing- 

 ton, D. C. 



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Some time ago attention was directed in this journal to the fact 

 that the forest reservations set aside by President Cleveland had been 

 suspended by Congress for one year, and it was feared that the sus- 

 pension tnight be made permanent. A determined effort was made 

 along these lines, but the Sundry Civil bill, passed on June 30th, re- 

 stored the original status and the reservations stand. It is a matter 

 for congratulation that such is the case. Forests when once destroyed 

 are restored with great difficulty, and every effort should be made 

 to husband them. 



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The threatened extinction of some of our most interesting plants 

 is a subject that should receive individual as well as public attention. 

 The rapid disappearance of the fur-seal is a noteworthy instance, 

 among animals, of a failure to take proper precautions in due season. 

 Just as the fur-seal has been exposed to the attacks of Canadian 

 poachers, many of our rarest orchids and ferns are falling a prey to 

 the inveterate flower-gatherer. The Hartford fern {Lj'godiuiii) is 

 sure to be exterminated in any locality that is not secluded or care- 

 fully guarded from observation. It is not so much the professional 

 botanist who is at fault, but the inveterate desire of many persons to 

 dig up and set out on their own grounds every rare or curious plant 

 which they may discover. While a wild flower garden no doubt 



