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Pomona College Journal of Economic Botany 



None of those interested in this enterprise have the slightest expectation 

 of the Journal ever becoming a paying proposition, though they hope 

 ultimately to make it self supporting. Its primary function is that of an 

 effective educational tool, and an active influence in building up safer, 

 more extensive, and more remunerative scientific horticulture for subtropical 

 regions, and a more complete and thorough Economic Botany for all of the 

 plants in question. 



The subscription price has been placed at a merely nominal figure, in 

 order that the Journal may be within the ready reach of all. We shall 

 make definite plans always to offer returns in far greater values, not only 

 to residents throughout the subtropics, but also to warm-house interests, 

 plant fanciers, horticulturists, and economic botanists the world over. Each 

 year's volume of four numbers will be complete by itself, and each year 

 undertaken will in any event be completed, but any given year will be under- 

 taken only when sufficient funds are in sight to cover its bare running 

 expenses. Many notable friends of this work tell us that without doubt 

 steady support for so important an undertaking will be forthcoming. 



A. J. COOK 

 C. F. BAKER 



