EDITORIAL. 



Although this number was partly made up as early as Novem- 

 ber, it is already apparent that it cannot be issued on time. In 

 future we shall try to be more prompt. Those who have articles 

 for a particular issue should bear in mind how early the issues 

 are made up and not wait until the last minute to send in their 

 "copy." 



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We advanced the price of the enlarged Fern Bulletin with 

 some misgivings as to the outcome, but fully determined to hold 

 to this course for at least a year. The result has been even better 

 than expected. We have not lost a dozen subscribers through 

 the change in price, and our gains in new subscribers have been 

 greater during the past three months than for any similar period 

 in our history. We do not make these statements with a desire to 

 boast, but for the information of the many friends of the journal 

 who have often indicated their interest in its success. To all of 

 those who have so ably seconded our efforts in the past, we desire 

 lo renew our expressions of indebtedness, and to all our readers 

 we wish a most happy and prosperous new year. 



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An amusing instance of how a scientist can become so used to 

 the appearance of plants in the herbarium as to forget their looks 

 afield was noticed recently in a review of "Our Ferns in Their 

 Haunts." The reviewer, who is a very prominent fern student, 

 said: "Rural scenes and other miscellaneous landscapes with a 

 fern of some sort placed in one corner as an afterthought or 

 adaptation of the artist, do not bring out the true relation of the 

 ferns to their surroundings as might easily have been accomplished 

 book, when it becomes sheer nonsense. As a matter of fact, the 

 artist made all but two of the illustrations in question in the 

 haunts of the ferns themselves, and the pictures are faithful tran- 

 scripts of New England scenery from the brush of the true artist. 

 It is possible that there will always be some people who prefer the 

 work of the "kodak fiend" to that of the artist, but happily such 

 people are rare among fern lovers. 



