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A MONTHLY JOURNAL FOR THE PLANT LOVER. 
Issued on the I5lh ot Each Month. 
WILLARD N. CLUTE, - - - EDITOR. 
SPECIAL NOTICE. 
Two volumes of this magazine are issued each year. Subscriptions 60 cents a 
volume or $1.00 a year. All subscriptions must begin viMth a volume. This maga- 
zine is sent to all subscribers until firdered discontinued and all arrearages paid. 
Subscribers may pay each year when most convenient. All subscriptions more than 
a year in arrears will be collecti^d by law. The publication is sent free to no one 
except by special arrangement. 
WILLARD N. CLUTE & CO., Publishers, Binghamton, N. Y. 
Entered at the Post Office at Binghamton. N. Y., as Second Class matter, Aug. 22, 1901. 
A Trip to Mount Katahdin. 
All persons desiring to visit Mount Katahdin this coming summer for the pur- 
pose of collecting the rare plants and other forms of life found there are requested to 
write to the undersigned for particulai s and price of trip. 
Parties desiring to purchase sets of Maine plants at reasonable prices write for 
particulars. O. W. KNIGHT, 
State Assay er, 84. Forest Ave., Bangor, Maine. 
Books Recommended 
In this department we shall, from time to time, recom- 
mend books that to ns seem of special value to readers of 
this journal. 
III. — Fern Books. 
It all depends upon what you want the book for. If a technical manual with 
descriptions of the North American species, get Underwoods "Our Native Ferns" % 
($1.08); if a popular handbook for Eastern America select either Parson's "How j| 
to Know the Ferns" ($1.63). Water's "Ferns" ($3.34) or Clute's "Our Ferns in J 
Their Haunts" ($2.15). Parson's book is well written but the keys are difficult, % 
Water's book has two technical keys and is illustrated with many photographsi 
Clute's book has more text than either, has illustrated keys, colored plates and the 
225 other illustrations are by an artist of ability. The real fern lover needs all 
three. Eastman's "New England Ferns" ($1.25) is a new book that is useful but 
not so comprehemsive as the others, while Dodge's "Ferns and Fern Allies of . 
New England" (50 cts.) is a complete little technical mannal. Clute's "Fern % 
Collector's Guide" (50 cts.) tells where to find ferns and how to press, mount and 
Identify them, Useful to take into the field. J 
i For the above books, or any others, address, f 
J WILLARD N. CLUTE & CO., Binghamton, N. Y. J 
CHARLES D. PENDEUL., PRINTER, BINGHAMTON, N. Y- 
