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is good for botany. * * * \\'e need more magazines and 

 more botanists. * * * Something ought to be done about 

 it! * * * Luther Burbank writes to one of our contem- 

 poraries that "I know of no other horticulture magazine pub- 

 lished anywhere that is so well edited and so generally interes- 

 ting." * * * Bless your heart, Luther, you are going to 

 see one just as soon as this is off the press i * * * "Every 

 day and in every way we are getting better and better." 



* * * C. A. Weatlierby says that somebody has been 

 pirating the Fern Bulletin. * * * .^ reprint of Vol. 1. 

 No. 1, has been discovered. * * * If anybod}- knows 

 who did it, we wish they would let us know too. * -t * 

 No we don't intend to reprove him. * * * \\q think 

 just as much of the fern Bulletin as he does. * * * 

 Wish he would reprint several other numbers. * * * 

 They are as scarce as cardinal flowers in January. * * * 

 That reminds us that the Editor is going to bring out a new 

 edition of his "Fern Allies of North America." * * * 

 This is positively its last appearance, * * * 'pj-^g plates 

 are to be melted up. * * * Qg^ ready to order your copy, 



* * * R. C. Benedict says there ought to be game laws 

 for ferns and rare flowering plants. * * * His observa- 

 tions on the subject, reprinted from American Fern Journal, 

 are being distributed by the Brooklyn Botanic Garden and the 

 Fern Society. * * * Vermont has protected her terri- 

 tory from the hand of the spoiler by enacting a law to pro- 

 hibit picking flowers and uprooting plants. * * * Other 

 States are expected to follow this example. * * * Xhe 

 subject of Dr. L. H. Bailey's second number of "Gentes Her- 

 barium" might well be "Too Much Mustard i" * * * j,-, 

 a scholarly paper he has tried to separate the cultivated forms 

 of Brassica or Sinapis or whatever else you may call them. 



