»J^ EDITORIAL l^i 



Beginning with the next number this magazine is to be 

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 the price; we shall simply give imv readers more for their 

 money. In veiw of this fact, we trust that every subscriber 

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 The size of the publication from year to year is largely in the 

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 It is very certain that if our subscription list should double, 

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Students of plants have missed much if they have not 



had access to Wood's "Class-Book of Botany." Wood was 



not a technicist; he made few attempts to seggregate or 



describe new species, and his name is seldom mentioned when 



\\\c leaders of his chosen science are enumerated; but he was 



a botanist in the best sense of that term and ihe spirit tliat 



l)ervades his work has endeared him to students of plants 



as tile more technical Manuals of Gray and P)ritton never 



will. In studying the "Class-! >ook" one is impressed with 



the author's love for his specimens and his desire to interest 



(others in them. Modern Manuals are models of efficiency; 



they pr(Kluce the name of an unknown pkmt in the most 



