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Some time ago the editor of this magazine wrote a 

 series of articles en herbarium making which has since 

 been twice reprinted, the second time with additional 

 matter and various minor changes It details the method 

 of mounting plants that now prevails in most of our 

 prominent herbariums and devotes considerable attention 

 to labels, driers, genus-covers, etc. In some of our fall ad- 

 vertising we have been offering this pamphlet free to new 

 subscribers, and the demand for it has caused us to think 

 that many of our present readers might like a cop^^ We 

 therefore offer to send one free to any subscriber who 

 sends us one dollar for renewal of subscription before the 

 first of next January, provided such renewal extends his 

 subscription to the end of 1905 at least. The pamphlet is 

 bound in extra heavy paper covers and retails for 25 cents. 

 It is published by another company and we have to bu}' 

 all we send out. We have simpl}' secured a low rate and 

 offer the pamphlet as a special inducement to new sub- 

 scribers and to present subscribers who renew. The part 

 of this offer applying to renewals will expire at the end of 

 1904. 



* 

 W^e are all aware of the fact that half a dozen flowers 

 in a vase are far more beautiful and decorative than half a 

 hundred ; and yet in gathering wnld flowers, even those 

 who ordinaril3^ seem to be possessed of some esthetic 

 sense, pick as if mere bigness of the bouquet were the onh^ 

 thing worth considering. Who has not noticed how much 

 the adder's-tongue, the columbine, the w^ater lil3' or the 

 rose loses by being arranged in masses ! Indeed, there is 

 not a flower, except the few that nature has bunched to- 

 gether in the beginning, that does not look better in small 

 groups ; and even in the case of the exceptions, two or 

 three stalks of flowers are suflicient. Twenty elder cymes 

 in a vase are not as good as one, and the same will apply 



