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This number closes our fifteenth volume and we turn to- 

 ward volume sixteen with a determination to make it as good 

 as those that have gone before it, and as much better as pos- 

 sible. Our country is yet too young for us to hope for a very 

 extended subscription list. We are still too busy taking an 

 account of stock, in collecting and naming and naming again 

 everything that looks like a plant. This magazine never has 

 been directed to those who collect and swap plants, but rather 

 to that thoughtful few who are interested in the wonderful 

 ways of the plants themselves. Not that we believe that those 

 who really appreciate the plants should always be in the mi- 

 nority. One of the inducements toward founding the journal 

 was that by so doing we might aid in reducing the number of 

 those who have no abiding interest in real botany. But the 

 work goes slowly and we would that our readers would realize 

 that the interests of this magazine are their own. The more 

 people there are who are interested in botany, whether sub- 

 scribers to this magazine or not, the more abundant and better 

 will be the books and publications devoted to our phase of the 

 subject. This being so, we hope our friends will continue to 

 help us push the magazine. We know there are many who 

 neglect no opportunity to recommend it to lovers of nature 

 among their acquaintances but we need your subscription for 

 the new volume ; will you not send it in early? 



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Recent numbers of Plant World have contained a large 

 number of short items which have been received with enough 

 favor by readers to induce the editor to continue or even to en- 

 large upon the idea in future. The same conclusion with ref- 

 erence to short notes was made by this magazine several years 

 ago and it is pleasant to note the spread of the idea. Now and 



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