No one but those who have had the actual experience knows of the crosses, trials and tribulations that beset the Editor of a magazine like this. The Editor of the Gardeners' Monthly has had twenty-seven years of this experience, and so can tell as well as anybody. And yet these evils have their compensations. Here is a kind word from one whom the Editor has never seen - a kind word that compensates for many hundreds of the little disagreeables inseparable from the editorial life:

"Allow me the present opportunity of acknowledging my obligations to you, as Editor of the Gardeners' Monthly. For many years it has been one of the greatest comforts and enjoyments of my life; selfishness may prompt the wish, but I hope that you and it may survive me".