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privately. Most of the members presumably keep collec- 

 tions, and, like Mr. C. B. Green, Mr. W. B. Cranfield, the 

 Rev. Kingsmill Moore, Dr. Stansfield and others, could 

 certainly impart something of interest to our pages in such 

 connection. In short, the Editor begs the members 

 generally to follow such examples, and thus to help him 

 practically in this fashion. He asks them, also, to 

 keep the Society in mind when visited by Fern-loving 

 friends, to the end that the membership be increased and 

 the Gazette improved. Specimen copies will always be 

 sent on receipt of application from possible members, and 

 the small subscription of 5s. per annum — from August to 

 August — entitling to four issues of the Gazette and all the 

 privileges of membership, should certainly not form an 

 obstacle to joining to any real Fern lover. 



The subscription for 1912-13 is now due, and the 

 Hon. Secretary would be obliged by its remittance at 

 an early date to his address, 11, Shaa Road, Acton, 



London, W. 



In this number the Editor has ventured to reproduce by 

 favour of the Gardeners' Magazine, to which he furnished 

 a copy at the time, a lecture entitled " Nature versus Culture 

 in Fern Variation," which he thinks may interest our 

 members, since, though it was delivered fifteen years ago, 

 his ideas then enunciated have still remained, not only 

 unaltered, but considerably strengthened by subsequent 

 experience, and it therefore may still be considered as '* up 

 to date." • The Editor. 



P.S. — The Editor would remind those new members 

 who may have received but a portion of the Gazette issues 

 that he has only about half a dozen bound copies left of 

 Vol. I. (Nos. I to 12) for issue to members only at 3s. gd., 

 post free, 304 pages, with contents, many illustrations, and 

 the Editor's portrait, a really presentable book, of which 

 no further issue is at all likely. 



