•J^ EDITORIAL t^» 



Any annual subscriber, at present on the lists of this 

 magazine, who pays for two years in advance and aks to be 

 transferred to the "Permanent List" will be credited for three 

 years and at the end of that time will be billed for future 

 volumes at $1.00 each. This is a great opportunity to get the 

 magazine for a dollar a year forever and all who expect to 

 continue interested in plant life for more than two years 

 should take advantage of it. Of course we shall be glad to 

 receive single subscriptions at the regular annual rate of $1.50, 

 but we feel that those who have been supporting the magazine 

 are entitled to a reduction. No order will be accepted whicli 

 does not add "Send me the magazine until I order it discon- 

 tinued. I will pay for it each year when most convenient." 

 This does not pledge the subscriber to take the magazine longer 

 than the time for which he has already paid ; it simply ensures 

 us that we will be notified when he wishes his subscription 

 stopped and enables us to count him among the permanent sup- 

 porters of this publication. 



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According to Shakespeare, "We are advertised by our 

 loving friends," but wc are of the opinion that tlie aforesaid 

 loxing friends may (nerdo the matter on occasion. Take W. 

 S. Ilarwood's "New Creations in I'lant Life" for instance. 

 This volume, which has achieved tlic distinction of a second 

 enlarged and revised edition, purports to describe the work of 

 Luther Rurbank in plant breeding, but the scientist, grounded 

 in plant physiology and ecology, is nf)t entirely convinced that 

 many of things stated therein as facts do not fall into another 

 category, lie is sure, for instance, that "foiir-fiftlis" of tlie 



