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by, where the wild callas grow profusely, there is danger of utter desola- 

 tion of these rare flowers. Selfishness and ignorance seem unlimited in 

 consideration for the most interesting wild flowers. The town of Easton 

 is noted for its wealth of wild flowers, but there are no thoughtful inter- 

 preters to awaken the children to value and love the wild flowers and 

 to help save certain of the more interesting plants now threatened with 

 extermination. 



If teachers and ministers throughout the country would aid in instruct- 

 ing the public in the real value of nature study, and to insure them against 

 the baneful and thoughtless flower-picking, this would mean a great day 

 when we should see all with hearts and eyes turned rightly, becoming 



more humane toward the plant life of the nature- world. 

 South Easton. Mass. 



Editorial. 



Apropos of our remarks in the last issue on the contents of this mag- 

 azine we print below verbatim two letters, written, oddly enough, on the 

 same date. They will serve admirably to illustrate our point that it is 

 impossible to please everybody, and that in literature as in dietetics, 

 " one man's meat is another man's poison." We think the majority of 

 our readers will coincide in their opinions with the writer of the second 

 letter, although it is to be noticed that our other correspondent tolerates 

 the Guam articles. If The Plant World followed the models of the 

 Botmiical Gazette and the Torrey Bidletin, its articles would be exclusively 

 technical, and absolutely unintelligible to the majority of our readers. As 

 for the * ' lessons in botany, ' ' we are not aware that we are printing any. 



" , Indiana, Oct. 15th, 1904. 



Editor of Plant World : 



' ' I note in the September Copy of your Plant World what one of 

 your subscribers .say regarding you magazine and I said to myself that I 

 would quite your magazine, because it contained nothing of interest to 

 me. I have taken all the Botanical Literature published in the U. S., 

 but for myself I think the Plant World is about the thinnest excuse for 

 a magazine of any of them published. 



" My interest lies only in Taxomic [sic] but I find nothing in your 

 magazine on any of these that are of any interest to me. Further than 

 that I also aim to get all of my magazines bound and I do not find any- 

 thing in your magazine that I feel like is worth a permanent record. The 

 Botanists Gazett is not on my line 3^et the articles that appear in it are 

 valuable. The type of a magazine I like is that of Rhodora and the 

 Tetorreya and Torey' s Bulletin. It seems to me that a great deal of 



