EDITORIAL 



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"Lest we forget" we say again at the beginning of a new 

 volume, that this magazine is not issued in July and August. 

 During these two months, the editor, like the bee. goes in 

 search of flowers and such sweets as he discovers are brought 

 home to enliven these pages during the winter months. We 

 can fairly promise that the present volume will be the best one 

 yet and we hope every subscriber will send us at least one new 

 name to add to our list. There are plenty of people yet who 

 have never heard of this magazine. When CN'erybody knows 

 about it our circulation will allow us to give twice as many 

 pages for the same price. Help the work along by mentioning 

 the magazine to your friends. 



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In every issue of this magazine are articles or notes which 

 we would like our brother editors of the gardening and horti- 

 cultural press to see. In the immense mail that most of them 

 receive, these small items are likely to be overlooked, and we 

 shall therefore begin with this issue sending marked copies of 

 such items to all. If any of these notes appear worth reprint- 

 ing or commenting upon, we trust that credit will be given 

 this magazine for them. 



Not long ago, a subscriber to the Naturc-Sfiidx Rcvieiv 

 stopped her subscription because she could borrow a copy of 

 a friend, and in a letter to the editor asked who received the 

 profits from his magazine. To this the exasperated editor 

 replied that thus far the magazine had not only failed to make 

 money but in three years had cost him individually about a 

 thousand dollars. The editor further intimated that he did 

 not intend to stand such an arrangement much longer, but 

 that is because he has been an editor for only three years. Af- 



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