4 Editorial. ? 
'I liis tiiontli. in response to the general demand, we use 
a larger amount of Note and Comment and we take the cx-- 
casion to again and more pointedly urge our readers to con- 
tribute to tliis department. In your rambles this spring 
and during the summer almost anything that is worth your 
attention in the field is worth writing about. Send such 
< >l>servations in by postal card while they are fresh in mind. 
Many botanizers keep a note-lxx^k in which are jotted dowix 
notes, queries, opinions and reflections aljout plants in gen- 
eral. We want similar notes. Hunt up your old note- 
b<x>ks and let us enjoy the things that make tjotany inter- 
esting to you. 
After all. there is a charm about mere plant collecting 
that cannot Ije derived from any other branch of lx)tany. 
All the delights of exploration and discovery await us in 
the nearest piece of wild land. We may have [mssed that 
way before, but the secrets of w(x>d and field are not ex- 
hausted by one or by several such trips. And every recur- 
ring season brings new^ delights. For the iK^nner there are 
always new and strange plants to pique his curiosity and 
tantalize him until names for them are found; and for the 
older student, familiar with the names, there is the finding 
of the plam>, each year anew, which is ahnost as good a- 
the original di-^covery. But who that really loves the wild 
tiAuers will manife-^t his regard for them by gathering every 
cne he can hnd ? Tlie fact is. the real lover of nature rare- 
ly comes back inm an excursion laden with s}>ecimen>. 
The individual with an armful of broken branches and 
drooping buds may tell you that she is an ardetit lover of 
