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A MONTHLY JOURNAL FOR THE PLANT LOVER. 
Issued on the 15lh 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 with a volume. This maga- 
zine is sent to all subscribers until oidered discontinued and all arrearages paid. 
Subscribers may pay each year when most convenient. All subscriptions more than 
a year in arrears will be collected 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 particulais and price of trip. 
Parties desiring to purchase sets of Maine plants at reasonable prices write for 
particulars. O. W. KNIGHT, 
State Assayer, 84 Forest Ave., Bangor, Maine. 
I Books Recommended | 
▲ In this department we shall, from time to time, recom- ^ 
jjj mend books that to us seem of special value to readers of j*: 
J this journal. T 
? 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 Underwood's "Our Native Ferns" % 
($1.08); if a popular handbook for Eastern America select either Parson's "How ^ 
Y to Know the Ferns" ($1.63). Water's "Ferns" ($3.34) or Clute's "Our Ferns in ▼ 
% Their Haunts" ($2.15). Parson's book is well written but the keys are difficult, % 
A Water's book has two technical keys and is illustrated with many photographs. a 
» Clute's book has more text than either, has illustrated keys, colored plates and the j 
W 225 other illustrations are by an artist of ability. The real fern lover needs all % 
i three. Eastman's "New England Ferns" ($1 .25) is a new book that is useful but a 
Y not so comprehemsive as the others, while Dodge's "Ferns and Fern Allies of j 
% New England" (50 cts.) is a complete jittle technical mannal. Clute's "Fern V 
III Collector's Guide" (50 cts.) tells where to find ferns and how to press, mount and X 
Y identify them. Useful to take into the field. Y 
f For the above books, or any others, address, f 
? WILLARD N. CLUTE & CO., Binghamton, N. Y. f 
CHARLES D. PENDEUL, PRINTER, BINQHAMTON, N. Y. 
