.^ EDITORIAL |^« 



If you want a measure of how much one can forget, 

 look through the last volume of this magazine and see how 

 much it contains that is again new to you. All this, how- 

 ever, is not entirely a matter of forgetting. A great many 

 impressions pass through our brains without making a per- 

 manent record, simply because we are not ready for them at 

 the time. As we progress in knowledge, these forgotten facts 

 assume new relationships to the others and a review of them 

 makes them our own. It is likely that a re-reading of the 

 books we have read and enjoyed would prove almost as 

 satisfactory as the reading of an equal number of new ones. 

 A vast number of books on out-door subjects have been 

 issued in the past quarter of a century and one wonders 

 whether it would not be a? well to re-issue the best of these 

 as to issue absolutely new ones. The authors simply vary; 

 the subject-matter does not. In a similar way a re-reading 

 of the back numbers of this magazine can scarcely fail to 

 interest the plant student. The matter they contain is of 

 permanent value. This suggests that diose who have nearly 

 complete sets should begin to think about getting the miss- 

 ing numbers. We have only about twenty full sets left and 

 very few odd volumes. In many' cases we have not a 

 single extra number on hand. Two large institutions each 

 lack a single number to complete their sets. These numbers 

 are Volume 27, number 2 and Volume 20, number 1. If 

 any reader has an extra copy of these to spare we shall be 

 glad to pass them along to the waiting librarians. 



