PREFACE 
Addison Brown, for twenty years United States District Judge 
for the Southern District of New York, was an enthusiastic amateur 
botanist and patron of science. He was a member of the Torrey 
Botanical Club for nearly forty years, and its president from 1893 
to 1905. He was keenly interested in the establishment and de- 
velopment of the New York Botanical Garden; was a member of 
the Board of Managers from its organization until his death, and 
President of the Garden from 1910. 
Judge Brown’s interest in plants centered largely on their proper 
illustration, and he has hitherto been best known to the botanical 
world as one of the authors of the “ Illustrated Flora.’”’ Upon 
his death, in 1913, he left a bequest to the New York Botanical 
-Garden establishing the AppISON Brown Funp, “the income 
and accumulations from which shall be applied to the founding and 
publication, as soon as practicable, and to the maintenance (aided 
by subscriptions therefor), of a high-class magazine bearing my 
name, devoted exclusively to the illustration by colored plates of 
the plants of the United States and its territorial possessions, and 
of other plants flowering in said Garden or its conservatories; with 
suitable descriptions in popular language, and any desirable notes 
and synonymy, and a brief statement of the known properties and 
uses of the plants illustrated.” 
The magazine established in accordance with the provisions of 
this bequest has been named AppISONIA in honor of its founder, 
and upon the completion of this first volume it seems appropriate 
to place on record this brief statement of its origin and its scope. 
jJoun H. BARNHART, 
Grorce V. Nasu, 
Editors of this volume. 
New York Botanical, GARDEN, 
December 30, 1916. 
