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* * * Park's Floral Magazine claims about the same num- 

 ber of readers. * * * it all depends on whether one wants 

 accounts of experiences with common garden flowers or the 

 latest information on the progress of botany. * * * 

 Publications purveying the latter kind of literature will never 

 be able to boast of even 100,000 readers. * * *One- 

 tenth of that number would be a big list. * * * Florida 

 Fruits and Flowers has begun publication at Bartow. * * * 

 At present it features largely the commercial side of plant 

 growing, but every little helps to increase the interest in 

 plant life. * * * fhe Cincinnati Chapter of the Wild- 

 flower Protection Society has issued three numbers of a 

 small journal devoted to plant preservation. * * * It is 

 named IVildflozvcr and is designed for circulation among 

 members of the Society but others should find it interesting. 



* * * It costs fifty cents a year, we hear. * * * 

 The Federal Horticultural Board has ruled that bulbs of 

 narcissus, scilla, chionodoxa, and various others shall not be 

 imported into the United States after 1925. * * * Xhe 

 Board does not excuse its action on the ground that such im- 

 portation may bring diseases into the country. * * * It 

 simply refuses to allow tliem to come in. * * * We 

 sometimes wonder why it is necessary to enact tariff laws 

 when five gentlemen in Washington are able to tell the other 

 112,000,000 of us what we. can and cannot import. * * * 

 Probablv this is the reason the Reviewer will not vote for the 

 candidates of a party that fosters such arbitrary rulings. 



* * * The gardener's vote ought to defeat the party! 



* * * The "Who's Who" books by Beecroft have been 

 out of print for some time but the two volumes on ferns and 

 flowers, respectively, are now to be had bound in a single vol- 

 ume. * * * Wilson Popenoe has recently issued "Econo- 

 mic Fruit-bearing Plants of Equador." * * * Our com- 



