A WORD FROM THE EDITOR 



For more than two years the editor of the Fern Bulletin has also been editing a 

 journal for the plant-lover, called The American Botanist. That he has been fairly 

 successful may be assumed from the fact that it now has the largest circulation of any 

 botanical magazine in America. People do not buy such publications out of charity; they 

 buy them for what they contain. No doubt the principal reason for the American Bot- 

 anist's popularity is that it is untechnical— even those who are not botanists can under- 

 stand it. Moreover it deals with a very different side of botany from that usually 

 presented. If you are interested in plants as living things— their uses, habits, and curious 

 methods of getting on in the world— this is just the publication you want. A large num- 

 ber of fern students are already readersof the American Botanist, but to induce others 

 to become such, we offer the last three numbers for this year, all the numbers of 1004, for 

 the regular subscription price of $1.00 if received before the first of January. Or we will 

 send the first five volumes (of six numbers each) and a year's subscription, for $300. 

 With the latter offer, your subscription to the FERN BULLETIN will be renewed for 50 

 cents additional. 



Address WILLARD N. CLUTE. BINQHAflTON, N. Y. 



for Christmas 



Nearly every fern student seems to have a copy of " Our Ferns in Their 

 Haunts," but if you happen to know of one who doesn't, you could scarcely do 

 a more graceful thing than to give him one for Christmas. You may be sure 

 the book will be consulted many times next year and in the years to follow 

 and every time this happens the giver will be thought of with pleasure. If 

 you have a young friend who is beginning to get interested in Nature, crys- 

 talize his tendency by giving him this book. The illustrations will make him 

 a lover of ferns and the text will make him wise about them. There are 225 

 illustrations and 340 pages of text. No other fern book is so full, so clear or 

 more accurate. The key for identifying the ferns has illustrations the of fruit- 

 dots and even a child can name the ferns by its use. Sent postpaid upon 

 receipt of $2.15. Address 



tUillard n. eiutc $ Co., Bingbamton, n. ¥. 



