For more than two years the editor of the Fern Bulletin has also been
editing a journal for the plant-lover, called The American Botanist.
That he has been fairly successful may be assumed from the fact that it
now has the largest circulation of any botanical magazine in America.
People do not buy such publications out of charity; they buy them for
what they contain. No doubt the principal reason for the American
Botanist's popularity is that it is untechnical--even those who are not
botanists can understand it. Moreover it deals with a very different
side of botany from that usually presented. If you are interested in
plants as living things--their uses, habits, and curious methods of
getting on in the world--this is just the publication you want. A large
number of fern students are already readers of the American Botanist,
but to induce others to become such, we offer the last three numbers for
this year, all the numbers of 1904, for the regular subscription price
of $1.00 if received before the first of January. Or we will send the
first five volumes (of six numbers each) and a year's subscription, for
$3.00. With the latter offer, your subscription to the Fern Bulletin
will be renewed for 50 cents additional.
Address WILLARD N. CLUTE, BINGHAMTON, N. Y.
_For Christmas_
Nearly every fern student seems to have a copy of "Our Ferns in Their
Haunts," but if you happen to know of one who doesn't, you could
scarcely do a more graceful thing than to give him one for Christmas.
You may be sure the book will be consulted many times next year and in
the years to follow and every time this happens the giver will be
thought of with pleasure. If you have a young friend who is beginning to
get interested in Nature, crystalize his tendency by giving him this
book. The illustrations will make him a lover of ferns and the text will
make him wise about them. There are 225 illustrations and 340 pages of
text. No other fern book is so full, so clear or more accurate. The key
for identifying the ferns has illustrations of fruit-dots and even a
child can name the ferns by its use. Sent postpaid upon receipt of
$2.15. Address
_Willard N. Clute & Co., Binghamton, N. Y._