EDITORIAL, 



It is now nearly six years since the first number 

 PAST, PRESENT of this journal was issued. Short as this period 

 AND FUTURE has been, it has sufficed for the development of 



an interest of ferns that is most remarkable. 

 When the first tiny Linn^ean Fern Bulletin made its appearance, 

 the number of persons generally known to be interested in Ameri- 

 can ferns was less than a score ; to increase this number was the 

 task set for the journal. In thus making a circle of readers for 

 itself the difficulties were found to be fewer than were at first 

 anticipated, for it was not necessary to interest people in ferns — 

 scarcely a lover of outdoors that did not wish to know more about 

 them— but rather to convince them that these most beautiful of 

 plants are as easy to study as are any that bear flowers. The 

 success that has attended these efforts have been made apparent 

 in succeeding issues of the Fern Bulletin. Six times the journal 

 has been enlarged, twice by an increase in the size of the page, 

 and four times by additional pages. Our support now warrants 

 us in making a further increase of four pages an issue and the 

 current volume will consist of one hundred and twelve pages. 

 The pages recently added were devoted to the mosses; these we 

 now add will be devoted to ferns. No increase in the subscrip- 

 tion price is made, but the editor requests that in return for the 

 extra pages, readers will show the magazine to their friends and 

 endeavor to have them subscribe. It is our intention to enlarge 

 the journal as often as circumstances warrant and the subscriber 

 who secures for us a single subscription as surely benefits himself 

 as he does his friend and us. If the support of fern lovers in- 

 creases in the future as it has in the past, the day is not far dis- 

 tant when the journal will be again increased in size. 



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With the removal of the New York Botanical 

 OUR NEW Garden office to Bronx Park, the New York office 



ADDRESS of the Fern Bulletin also goes farther up town. 



As before, all subscriptions ard general business 

 should be mailed to Binghamton, but correspondence intended for 

 the editor should now be addressed to Willard N. Clute, New 

 York Botanical Garden, Bronx Park, New York City. 



