THE AMERICAN BOTANIST. 95 
tually a stockholder in the magazine and while he is not repaid 
in money for his assistance in advancing its interests, the divid- 
ends he receives in the way of a larger number of pages should be 
equally satisfactory. On another page we offer two subscrip- 
tions for $1.^40. This is practically offering to pay sixty cents 
for a single subscription. In renewing be sure to send one new 
subscriber and thus get your copy for forty cents. 
One of the important features of the forthcoming volume, will 
be a series of keys, based upon color for the identification of the 
wild-flowers, the first of which is expected to appear in the July 
number. These keys will be illustrated by drawings of the flow- 
ers named, and arranged much as are the keys for identifying the 
ferns in the editor's ''Our Ferns in their Haunts." The reprint- 
ing of interesting notes and articles from other publications will 
be continued and readers are assured that by subscribing to the 
American Botanist they will miss nothing but the technical 
papers in other journals. At the same time we desire to state, 
that the extra pages we are adding will be devoted to original ar- 
ticles and we request contributions within our scope from all our 
readers. The use of illustrations when desirable will make the 
new volume of still greater utility. 
BOOKS AND WRITERS. 
The Junior Naturalist, a publication "devoted primarily to the 
young naturalist," is announced to begin publication in August, 
at Chicago. 
Time was when the flower lover was perplexed to know where 
to find a book to identify his finds ; now his perplexity arises in 
trying to select the best one from the growing number of popular 
botanical works. The botanizer who can afford it will have them 
all ; others can get along very well with a smaller number. While 
^11 these "popular botanies" have for their aim the introduction 
of the plant world to the nature lover, their different ways of ap- 
