POMONA COLLEGE JOURNAL 



of ECONOMIC BOTANY 



Volume I FEBRUARY 1911 Number 1 



Foreword 



THIS JOURNAL has been established first and foremost in the interests 

 of the scientific development of the new Subtropical Horticulture, 

 and of a more scientific knowledge of the many plants which have 

 made and will make Southern California one of the richest garden 

 spots on Earth, and which promise great possibilities also for other similar 

 regions. 



In the recent rapid growth of the vast subtropical regions lying between 

 the distinctively temperate areas and the well defined tropics, a flood of 

 new plants has been pouring in from farther north as well as from all of 

 the Tropics of the World. Trees, shrubs, and herbs from the North are 

 comparatively well known, but exact knowledge concerning the myriads 

 of valuable things constantly being imported from farther south and from 

 other foreign lands is always a great desideratum. There is very acute 

 and special need in this connection for all of that more exact knowledge 

 which comes under the general head of Economic Botany. The call for 

 this work is constant and urgent from growers, planters, amateur fanciers, 

 greenhouse-men, nursery-men, seed-men, importers, experimenters and botan- 

 ists. 



Coming with these new plants are many little known fungous and bac- 

 terial diseases which, under the new conditions, frequently accomplish most 

 dire and alarming results. In these and other matters, Subtropical Horti- 

 culture possesses a multitude of serious problems, both old and new, which 

 are all its own. 



This Journal will be dedicated to the publishing of the best obtainable 

 new and original results along all of these lines, and our contributors will 

 include some of the most practical, capable, and energetic students and in- 

 vestigators in the country, and we shall also select for it some of the best 

 results that we are able to produce here at Pomona College. We shall, so 

 far as possible, avoid the extremely technical, and employ every effort to make 

 the Journal thoroughly readable and clearly and abundantly illustrated. 

 Though always it should be remembered as true, just as in other lines of 

 modern human effort, that the safest, best, arid most successful practice, 

 is ever that which is based upon detailed and fundamental technical knowledge. 



