This is the last time we shall offer to supply, free, 
missing numbers of the first six volumes of this magazine. 
The demand for these numbers has about used up our 
supph' and we cannot break the few sets remaining. To 
all our subscribers, therefore, we sa^^ look over your first 
six volumes and see that all the numbers are present and 
in good condition. We will replace defective and missing 
numbers free if notice is sent us at once. If vou wait until 
later, you may have to buy the entire v 
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We take considerable satisfaction in calling attention 
to the fact that this magazine is again issued on time. 
Owing to a press of business last winter some numbers 
were nearly sixty days late but we have caught up with- 
out doubling upon our numbers and with our subscribers' 
help we intend to come out on time in the future. And 
while we are on the subject we want to invite our readers 
to help us push the magazine a little more strenuously. If 
we can get a single hundred more subscribers we will add 
four more pages to each issue of this magazine. It is thus 
to every reader's advantage that the magazine prospers. 
Will you not help us? You do not need to hunt for 
botanists to secure subscribers. Anybody who loves the 
wildflowers ought to subscribe and "doubtless will if the 
matter is properly presented to them. 
Now that the Vienna botanical congress has adjourned 
it is only our respect for the feelings of the radical botan- 
ists that prevents our saying in large type "I told vou 
so!" The official report has not yet got around to this 
office but we learn from private sources that the name- 
tmkerers did not have things much their own way. So 
lav as the congress is concerned the nomenclature of the 
next tew years bids fair to he of the same conservative 
