:^ EDITORIAL fr 



The next number of this magazine will have so many- 

 changes and improvements made in it that even its best friends 

 will hardly recognize it. To begin with, a much better grade 

 of paper will be used and a large number of fine illustrations 

 will add interest to the text. A department of ornamental 

 gardening will also be included and present to our readers 

 the best methods of planting and caring for our decorative 

 plants, with observations on their use and value. The new 

 features contemplated will in no wise crowd the matter at 

 present appearing in the magazine for we shall add 25% 

 more pages to take care of this. We are enabled to make 

 these improvements by reason of the increased circulation 

 which the combining of The Fern Bulletin with this magazine 

 will give us. The Fern Bulletin is the third oldest botanical 

 publication in the United States and for twenty years has had 

 an uninterrupted and successful existence. The editor, how- 

 ever, finds conducting two magazines in addition to much 

 other work, a little too strenuous hence the combination. 

 Hereafter our readers will find much that concerns ferns in 

 the magazine, and since these highly decorative and attrac- 

 tive plants are always of interest, our readers will no doubt, 

 welcome the combination. Finally, we contemplate paying 

 for manuscript in future. This ought to ensure the highest 

 grade of matter for publication and readers will benefit ac- 

 cordingly. The price of the magazine will remain unchanged 

 to all present subscribers. To new subscribers it will be ad- 

 vanced. We feel sure that the next volume will far surpass 

 any that we have issued and we trust that every reader will 

 make sure of a copy by renewing promptly. 



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