EDITORIAL. 



Some days ago, a subscriber to this magazine wrote 

 to condole with the editor upon the demise of the 

 Fern Buletin. It may be needless to add that he 

 was a comparatively new subscriber. This magazine 

 is not dead now moribund, nor is it, to continue our 

 pathological anology further, even in a comatose con- 

 dition. The magazine is still supposed to be printed 

 at Binghamton, but when our business was moved to 

 Joliet and nobody left to stir up the printers, matters 

 began to drag. Readers will recall that the January 

 issue, though late, had to be reprinted, that the April 

 issue was more than four months in getting through 

 the press, and we may add for their further informa- 

 tion, that the printers have had the copy for the next 

 issue for nearly three months without finding time to 

 set it up. The present number beginning a new 

 volume is printed at Joliet with a reliable printing es- 

 tablishment, and no more delays of this kind need be 

 feared. We shall continue right along with volume 

 16 an/i send the two missing numbers as soon as we 

 can get them. 



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A second reason for the delay in issuing the maga- 

 zine is that the editor finds himself in much the posi- 

 tion as regards fern study that Napoleon considered 

 himself in regard to France when he observed "The 

 State? I am the State!" The editor is far too modest 

 to claim that he is all there is of fern-study, but to 

 judge from the amount of writing he is obliged to do 

 in order to keep this magazine filled he is pretty near 

 all of it. It is the editor's misfortune rather than his 

 ambition that obliges him to thus appear in the role 



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