At a recent meeting of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society the Reverend J. B. Harrison said : "We need a periodical which shall be devoted to the persistent education of the people; not by elaborate aesthetic essays, but by short, sharp and incisive articles, with iteration and reiteration. Here in Boston is the place for a journal to be devoted to this work. Nothing can be finally adequate to this subject which does not provide for an advance in civilization. We might make attractive forest places near cities, preserving the sources of water".