Part 4

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._

FOOTNOTES

[1]Ferns. By Campbell E. Waters. New York. Henry Holt & Co. 1903. 8 vo. 360 pp. $2.75 net.

[2]The Flora of the Southeastern United States. By John K. Small. New York. Published by the author. 1903. 8 vo. 1,375 pp. $3.60 net.

[3]The Book of British Ferns. By Charles T. Druery, F. L. S., V. M. H. London. George Newnes, Ltd. 1903. 12 mo. 135 pp. $1.25.

SEND AT ONCE FOR MY JUNE, 1903, SPECIAL BULLETIN OF Microscopes and Objectives Cameras, Photographic Lenses, Etc.

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FOR SALE

We offer a set of the FERN BULLETIN, lacking only two numbers of Vol. 5, two numbers of Vol. 4 and four numbers of Vol. 1-3, for the very low price of $6.00 postpaid. This set includes 36 of the 44 numbers thus far issued. Send order by postal. First order secures the set. Address

FERN BULLETIN. Binghamton, N. Y.

Transcriber's Notes

--Retained publication information from the printed edition: this eBook is public-domain in the country of publication.

--Silently corrected a few palpable typos.

--Generated a spine image based on elements in the cover.

--Added a Table of Contents.

--In the text versions only, text in italics is delimited by _underscores_.

End of Project Gutenberg's The Fern Bulletin, October 1903, by Various