IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT 



HE publishers of Home and Fi^owers have decided upon some radical 



^ changes in the policy of the magazine. In the future it will be devoted 

 more exclusively to flower growing in the home, and kindred subjects. 



Instead of giving large cash prizes to club raisers and contributors, the 

 publishers will reduce the subscription price of Home axd Fi^ow^ERS. All cash 

 prize offers are hereby withdrawn, therefore, and the price of the magazine 

 hereafter will be 50 cents a year. 



A satisfactory adjustment w^ill be made with all subscribers who have paid 

 one dollar a 3'ear for the magazine, and such persons are requested to write 

 us at once. We will continue to give subscribers and club raisers liberal 

 premiums — a full list of which is to be found on the next few pages. 



The civic betterment features of Home and Flowers, which have 

 attracted so much attention and favorable comment, will be continued in 

 The Chautauquan, now published under the same management. Mr. Louis 

 E. Van Norman, formerl}^ editor of Home and Flowers, assumes an editorial 

 connection wdth The Chautauquan. 



Eben E. Rexford will continue as one of the editors of Home and 

 Flow^ERS and will write for no other floral publication. Miss Martha Van 

 Rensselaer will remain as editor of " The Well- Ordered Household." Larger 

 space will be devoted to letters from subscribers, and the magazine will be 

 made more practical and more popular in its nature. 



The Floral World, a popular floral journal devoted more especially 

 to the needs of amateurs, has been purchased by the publishers of 

 Home and Flowers and the two journals consolidated. Subscribers for The 

 Floral World will receive Home axd Flowers in the future — getting a 

 larger and better magazine at no additional cost. 



We have made these changes that our publication ma}^ more completely 

 fill the requirements of those v>'ho have subscribed for it. The popular demand 

 is for a medium-priced journal of home floriculture and home interests. Home 

 AXD Flowers will seek to meet this demand in everj^ way. The continued 

 support of our friends and patrons is solicited, and we thank them for all past 

 favors. 



THE FLORAL PUBLISHING COMPANY 



Springfield, Ohio, March i, 1903. 



