THE PLANT WORLD 237 



EDITORIAL. 



On another page of this issue will be found an announcement of 

 the New York Botanical Garden with respect to a prize competition in 

 which we think all of our readers will be interested. Several months 

 ago the sum of $3,000 was offered to the Garden to be used in such 

 manner as might be approved for the maintenance and preservation of 

 native plants. This munificent gift, made to an influential and power- 

 ful institution, and sujiplementing the educational and missionary work 

 now being carried on by the Boston Society for the Preservation of 

 Native Plants, is sure to go far in the solution of the problem. The 

 Scientific Directors of the Garden have wisely decided to use, for the 

 present, only the income of this sum; and as a means of gaining valu- 

 able suggestions from plant-lovers and botanists throughout the coun- 

 try, they offer three prizes for the best essay on any phase of the sub- 

 ject of plant preservation. The conditions of the competition will be 

 found enumerated in the ofl&cial announcement; and we trust that some, 

 at least, of our subscribers will decide to make a trial. 



The latest leaflets issued by the Boston Society for the Preserva- 

 tion of Native Plants contain interesting articles by Professor G. L. 

 Goodale and Mr. Geo. E. Davenport, and will be sent to anyone upon 

 application. It is gratifying to learn that the American botanical press 

 is united in its support of the objects which the Society strives to at- 

 tain, and it gives us pleasure to note that the journal in which is ap- 

 pearing the railroad advertisement criticised by us editorially in the 

 September issue of The Plant World has published an explanation of 

 the advertisement which eliminates the worst features of the latter. 



