x RETROSPECT 



On Asiatic plants the following have been studied: Boissier's Flora Orientalis, 

 Post's Flora of Syria, Palestine and Sinai, Siebold and Zuccarini's Flora Japoniea, 

 Franehet & Savatier's Enumeratio Plantarum Japonicarum, Maximowicz's Diagnoses 

 Plantarum Asiaticarum and Diagnoses Plantarum Japoniea?, Bentham's Flora Hong- 

 kongensis, Forbes & Hemsley's Flora of China in vol. 23 of the Journal of the Linnean 

 Soe., Blanco's sumptuous Flora de Filipinas, Baker's Flora of Mauritius and the Sey- 

 chelles, and Hooker's Flora of British India. 



The office force consisted of the Editor and Associate Editor, the latter giving all his 

 time to the work for four years. For a time, Alfred Rehder was employed at the Ar- 

 nold Arboretum, near Boston, to work on the hardy trees and shrubs. For two mouths 

 F. W. Barclay, a former student at the Massachusetts Agricultural College and now 

 gardener for C. A. Griscom, Haverfoi-d, Pennsylvania, joined the office at Ithaca, giving 

 most of his attention to herbaceous plants. Heinrich Hasselbring, graduate of Cornell 

 University and trained as a florist, joined the office force for a time, devoting his 

 attention mostly to orchids. No other writers have been employed otherwise than as 

 contributors. The Associate Editor has had particular charge of indexes, trade lists, 

 bibliographical matters, and editing of manuscripts. Aside from constructive and ad- 

 ministrative matters, the Editor has had special charge of illustrations, proof-reading, 

 arrangements with contributors and the make-up of the galleys into pages. He has 

 read every line of the work, much of it several times over. The Editor desires to 

 express his appreciation of the aid which the Associate Editor, Wilhelm Miller, has 

 rendered to him and to the Cyclopedia. With unbounded zeal, persistent industry and 

 painstaking thoroughness, he has given his best effort to the work from start to 

 finish. 



The pictures have been made by a score and more of artists. With the exception of 

 the fifty half-tone full-page plates, they are all line drawings. The greater part of 

 these di - awings have been made from the living plants or other objects. Many have 

 been drawn from photographs, of which a large collection was made. Some have 

 been composed from combined suggestions of authoritative prints, botanical specimens, 

 and other information. Some of the pictures are from the American Garden, having 

 been made for that journal in the years 1890 to 1893, under the supervision of the 

 present Editor. These engravings passed into the hands of the J. Horace McFarland 

 Company, and by this company have been used for the present publishers. A 

 number of the cuts have been borrowed from the Cornell University Experiment 

 Station. Some of the illustrations are those used in the books in which the Editor is 

 interested and which are published by The Macmillan Company. The pictures are 

 intended to represent the average excellence of the plants, and, therefore, they are not 

 idealized. The artists who have made the largest number of illustrations directly for 

 the Cyclopedia are: Charles W. Furlong and W. C. Baker, Instructors in Drawing in 

 Cornell University; E. N. Fischer and C. H. L. Gebfert, Jamaica Plain, Mass., who had 

 access to the Arnold Arboretum; Miss H. A. Wood, Kingston, Jamaica, West Indies, 

 who has drawn tropical economic plants; G. R. Chamberlain, who has drawn many 

 plants, particularly annuals, in the gardens of Cornell University; Miss R. M. 

 Huntington, who had access to the gardens at "Smith College, Northampton, Mass.; 

 Mrs. K. C. Davis and Miss Marie L. Robertson (now Mrs. B. M. Duggar) , then at Ithaca, 

 N. Y. The artistic work has been aided at almost every point by the personal interest 

 of J. Horace McFarland, proprietor of the Mt. Pleasant Press, Harrisburg, Pa., where 

 the type-setting and presswork have been done. Himself an expert photographer, 



