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unless we happen to have a surplus. We are willing 

 to replace soiled, torn or missing numbers free if re- 

 quested to do so at once, and the fact that odd vol- 

 umes will soon be unobtainable should incline all whose 

 sets are incomplete to add the missing volumes while 

 they can. 



BOOK NOTES. 



In anticipation of the consolidation of this maga- 

 zine with The American Botanist at the end of the 

 year, some very extensive improvements in the new 

 magazine are to be made. Among the more import- 

 ant are a better grade of paper, the use of numerous 

 illustrations, and the addition of enough pages to make 

 it the largest magazine for the price in America. With 

 the beginning of 1913 a department of ornamental 

 gardening will be included in which the cultivation of 

 our showy wild-flowers will receive adequate treat- 

 ment. This magazine will continue the matter rela- 

 tive to ferns now appearing in The Fern Bulletin and 

 all manuscripts used will be paid for. No reader of 

 Fern Bulletin should fail to subscribe for the new 

 American Botanist if they wish to keep abreast of the 

 times in botany. Those who subscribe for 1913 be- 

 fore November 20th, will receive the November issue 

 free. 



Messrs. Ginn & Co. have nearly ready for publica- 

 tion a book on Agronomy by the editor of The Fern 

 Bulletin which should be of interest to all w T ho have 

 anything to do with cultivating plants. Although the 

 book is intended as a school book ' to be used in con- 

 nection with gardening- courses, the fact that it not 

 only gives directions for planting and cultivating 

 kitchen vegetables and flowering plants, but explains 



