EDITORIAL 



Owing to the endeavors of some of our countrymen to 

 enrich themselves, during the carnage on the other side of 

 the world, by selling in foreign markets the commodities 

 needed at home, the price of all materials used in the print- 

 ing trades has been steadily advancing for some time. In 

 consequence of this a large number of the smaller maga- 

 zines and newspapers have been forced out of business, 

 while others have been obliged to practice many little econ- 

 omies in order to keep in the game. To add to the burden 

 of those that remain, our beneficent government, after re- 

 fusing to allow quarterlies to extend reasonable credit to 

 subscribers, now comes forward with a proposal to increase 

 the rate of postage on matter of this class. In view of these 

 facts, the subscription price of the American Botanist has 

 been advanced to $1.25 a year. Present subscribers, how- 

 ever, need not worry about the change for it will not affect 

 them. When the price of this magazine was increased from 

 75 cents to $1.00 a year, the price was not increased to old 

 subscribers, and the present advance is of the same nature. 

 YVe have always felt that some concessions are due to those 

 who have consistently supported the magazine for a term 

 of years — in many cases since the issue of the first number 

 Those now on our lists, either "permanent" or annual sub- 



