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GARDEN AND FOREST:

An Illustrated Weekly Journal of Horticulture, Landscape Art and Forestry.

GARDEN AND FOREST will be devoted to Horticulture in all its branches, Garden Botany, Dendrology and Landscape Gardening, and will discuss Plant Diseases and Insects injurious to vegetation.

Professor C. S. SARGENT, of Harvard College, will have general editorial control of GARDEN AND FOREST.

Professor WM. G. FARLOW, of Harvard College, will have editorial charge of the Department of Cryptogamic Botany and Plant Diseases.

Professor A. S. PACKARD, of Brown University, will have editorial charge of the Department of Entomology.

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GARDEN AND FOREST will record all noteworthy discoveries and all progress in science and practice within its field at home and abroad. It will place scientific information clearly and simply before the public, and make available for the instruction of all persons interested in garden plants the conclusions reached by the most trustworthy investigators. Arrangements have been made to figure and describe new and little-known plants (especially North American) of horticultural promise. A department will be devoted to the history and description of ornamental trees and shrubs. New florists' flowers, fruits and vegetables will be made known, and experienced gardeners will describe practical methods of cultivation.

GARDEN AND FOREST will report the proceedings of the principal Horticultural Societies of the United States and the condition of the horticultural trade in the chief commercial centres of the country.

GARDEN AND FOREST, in view of the growing taste for rural life, and of the multiplication of country residences in all parts of the United States, especially in the vicinity of the cities and of the larger towns, will make a special feature of discussing the planning and planting of private gardens and grounds, small and large, and will endeavor to assist all who desire to make their home surroundings attractive and artistic. It will be a medium of instruction for all persons interested in preserving and developing the beauty of natural scenery. It will co-operate with Village Improvement Societies and every other organized effort to secure the proper ordering and maintenance of parks and squares, cemeteries, railroad stations, school grounds and roadsides. It will treat of Landscape Gardening in all its phases; reviewing its history and discussing its connection with architecture.

GARDEN AND FOREST will give special attention to scientific and practical Forestry in their various departments, including Forest Conservation and economic Tree Planting, and to all the important questions which grow out of the intimate relation of the forests of the country to its climate, soil, water supply and material development.

Original information on all these subjects will be furnished by numerous American and foreign correspondents.

Among those who have promised contributions to GARDEN AND FOREST are:

Mr. SERENO WATSON, Curator of the Herbarium, Harvard College.

Prof. GEO. L. GOODALE, Harvard College.

" WOLCOTT GIBBS, "

" WM. H. BREWER, Yale College.

" D. G. EATON, "

" WM. J. BEAL, Agricultural College of Michigan.

" L. H. BAILEY, Jr., "

" J. L. BUDD, Agricultural College of Iowa.

" B. D. HALSTED, " " "

" E. W. HILGARD, University of California.

" J. T. ROTHROCK, University of Pennsylvania.

" CHAS. E. BESSEY, University of Nebraska.

" WM. TRELEASE, Shaw School of Botany, St. Louis.

" T. J. BURRILL, University of Illinois.

" W. W. BAILEY, Brown University.

" E. A. POPENOE, Agricultural College, Kansas.

" RAPHAEL PUMPELLY. United States Geological Survey.

" JAMES H. GARDINER, Director New York State Survey.

" WM. R. LAZENBY, Director of the Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station.

" W. W. TRACY, Detroit, Mich.

" C. V. RILEY, Washington, D. C.

Mr. DONALD G. MITCHELL, New Haven, Conn.

" FRANK J. SCOTT, Toledo, O.

Hon. ADOLPHE LEUE, Secretary of the Ohio Forestry Bureau.

" B. G. NORTHROP, Clinton, Conn.

Mr. G. W. HOTCHKISS, Secretary of the Lumber Manufacturers' Association.

Dr. C. L. ANDERSON, Santa Cruz, Cal.

Mr. FREDERICK LAW OLMSTED, Brookline, Mass.

" FRANCIS PARKMAN, Boston.

Dr. C. C. PARRY, San Francisco.

Mr. PROSPER J. BERCKMANS, President of the American Pomological Society.

" CHARLES A. DANA, New York.

" BURNET LANDRETH, Philadelphia.

" ROBERT RIDGEWAY, Washington, D. C.

" CALVERT VAUX, New York.

" J. B. HARRISON, Franklin Falls, N. H.

Dr. HENRY P. WALCOTT, President of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society.

Mr. C. G. PRINGLE, Charlotte, Vt.

" ROBERT DOUGLAS, Waukegan, Ill.

" H. W. S. CLEVELAND, Minneapolis, Minn.

" CHAS. W. GARFIELD, Secretary of the American Pomological Society.

" C. R. ORCUTT, San Diego, Cal.

" B. E. FERNOW, Chief of the Forestry Division, Washington, D. C.

" JOHN BIRKENBINE, Secretary of the Pennsylvania Forestry Association.

" JOSIAH HOOPES, West Chester, Pa.

" PETER HENDERSON, New York.

" WM. FALCONER, Glen Cove, N. Y.

" JACKSON DAWSON, Jamaica Plain, Mass.

" WM. H. HALL, State Engineer, Sacramento, Cal.

" C. C. CROZIER, Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C.

The Rev. E. P. ROE, Cornwall, N. Y.

Dr. C. C. ABBOTT, Trenton, N. J.

Mrs. SCHUYLER VAN RENSSELAER, New York.

" MARY TREAT, Vineland, N. J.

Dr. KARL MOHR, Mobile, Ala.

Hon. J. B. WALKER, Forest Commissioner of New Hampshire.

Mr. WM. HAMILTON GIBSON, Brooklyn, N. Y.

" EDGAR T. ENSIGN, Forest Commissioner of Colorado.

" E. S. CARMAN, Editor of the _Rural New Yorker_.

" WM. M. CANBY. Wilmington, Del.

" JOHN ROBINSON, Salem, Mass.

" J. D. LYMAN, Exeter, N. H.

" SAMUEL PARSONS, Jr., Superintendent of Central Park, N. Y.

" WM. MCMILLAN, Superintendent of Parks, Buffalo. N. Y.

" SYLVESTER BAXTER, Boston.

" CHARLES ELIOT, Boston.

" JOHN THORPE, Secretary of the New York Horticultural Society.

" EDWIN LONSDALE, Secretary of the Philadelphia Horticultural Society.

" ROBERT CRAIG, President of the Philadelphia Florists' Club.

" SAMUEL B. PARSONS, Flushing, N. Y.

" GEORGE ELLWANGER, Rochester.

" P. H. BARRY, Rochester.

" W. J. STEWART, Boston, Mass.

" W. A. MANDA, Botanic Gardens, Cambridge, Mass.

" DAVID ALLAN, Mount Vernon, Mass.

" WM. ROBINSON, North Easton, Mass.

" A. H. FEWKES, Newton Highlands, Mass.

" F. GOLDRING, Kenwood, N. Y.

" C. M. ATKINSON, Brookline, Mass.

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Dr. MAXWELL T. MASTERS, Editor of the Gardener's Chronicle.

Mr. GEO. NICHOLSON, Curator of the Royal Gardens, Kew.

" W. B. HEMSLEY, Herbarium, Royal Gardens, Kew.

" WM. GOLDRING, London.

Mr. MAX LEICHTLIN, Baden Baden.

M. EDOUARD ANDRE, Editor of the Revue Horticole, Paris, France.

Dr. G. M. DAWSON, Geological Survey of Canada.

Prof. JOHN MACOUN, " " "

M. CHARLES NAUDIN, Director of the Gardens of The Villa Thuret, Antibes.

Dr. CHAS. BOLLE, Berlin.