EDITORIAL 



In this issue will be found notes on practically every sub- 

 ject previously taken up by the Botanical Observation Club. 

 We mention the matter here in order to call attention again 

 to the fact that in addition to the articles of general interest 

 published, we are conducting various lines of original inves- 

 tigation in which all who care to do so may help. Often the 

 individual contribution may be only a note, but a note, never- 

 theless, without which the summary would be incomplete. 

 We trust that our readers will occasionally glance through 

 past numbers of the magazine and when they can add any- 

 thing to the observations previously made, that they will do 

 so. We do not consider any of the lines of investigation 

 closed, and shall welcome further notes on fragrant wild- 

 flowers, wild food plants, herbs with berries, and other sub- 

 jects which have been up for discussion. There are neither 

 dues nor fees in the Botanical Observation Club. Sending in 

 notes makes you a member. 



Word has gone out that in order to save the wheat crop 

 from destruction all barberry plants must be exterminated. 

 The reason for this order is that the wheat rust, a fungus that 

 often causes much damage to the growing wheat, passes one 

 stage of its life cycle on the leaves of the barberry. A sig- 

 nificant fact in this connection, however, is that the wheat rust 

 does not have to grow on the barberry. If none of these 



