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The return of the "subscription season" always brings to 

 us, along with sundry specimens of the "coin of the realm." 

 many kind wishes from subscribers for the continued growth 

 and success of the magazine. This building up of a subscrip- 

 tion list among people interested in our kind of botany is slow- 

 business, however, and we shall doubtless have to rely upon the 

 co-operation of our friends for some time to come if the maga- 

 zine is to be made in any sense a howling success. We believe 

 that the kind of botany we are concerned with is ultimately to 

 be the principal kind of botany but until that time arrives we 

 shall have to make common cause and win adherents from 

 those who at present are not enough interested in plants to 

 subscribe for any kind of a botanical magazine. ' Unless one 

 has an independent income it is not possible to make a big 

 magazine on a small subscription list. An appreciation of 

 these facts has led several of our subscribers to take an active 

 part in extending our circle of readers, and we greatly appre- 

 ciate their good will. If readers generally realized that our 

 success means a bigger and better magazine for them without 

 increase in price, we are sure they would miss no opportunity 

 of recommending the magazine to their friends. 



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It is very apparent that the establishment of a parcels post 

 in this country would give a great impetus to gardening and 

 horticultural affairs. At present a great deal of the money 

 you spend with your florist and seedsman, goes to pay the 

 needlessly high rates of postage. If we but had a parcels 

 post, such as nearly every other civilized country has, flowers, 

 seeds and fruits would be cheaper and certainly more abundant. 

 As it is at present our government has established a parcels 

 post with some foreign countries and it now costs less to send 



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