EDITORIAL. 



The removal of this magazine to its new home in Joliet. 

 111., was a bit larger undertaking than we had anticipated 

 and it is quite likely' that this number may be somewhat 

 delayed. For the first time in some years the editor and 

 the magazine are now in the same town, and we expect 

 everything to work better in consequence. Delayed num- 

 bers should be out of the question in future. The next 

 volume of this magazine is expected to be of unusual 

 excellence, in fact to be by far the best volume we have 

 ever issued. We trust that all our subscribers will 

 promptly renew and that they will induce their friends to 

 do likewise. We are sending a bill with this number to 

 all whose subscriptions have expired and if any do not 

 care to receive the magazine longer we request that notice 

 be sent to us at once. It is a rare thing, however, for a 

 person interested in ferns to stop his magazine. Many 

 of our subscribers have been with us from the beginning, 

 fourteen years ago, and many others expect to be with 

 us for some time longer, at least, for there are subscrip- 

 tions on our books that are paid up to 1910. 



In July this magazine was packed for shipment to 

 Joliet, and a great share of the back numbers are still in 

 the packing cases. This has prevented us from sending 

 sample copies as requested during the past few months, 

 but a sample of this issue is sent to all who applied and 

 we earnestly solicit their subscriptions. 



While we have always felt that too much may be made 

 of the forms of ferns from the standpoint of the systema- 



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