HORTUS BOTANICUS

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Dear members of the editorial board of Hortus Botanicus.

Dear authors and readers.This is a very difficult year for the magazine.

On the one hand, we are connected with the conference dedicated to the memory of A.S. Lantratova, thanks to whom my beloved PetrSU Botanical Garden was established; on the other hand, the interests of the editor-in-chief and the founder have gone sharply towards the water. And he (I) again began to actively study it.

Even came up with a magazine section for it.

According to him, water is the basis of life. But in the course of research it turned out that there is no water, there are two chemically identical substances capable of physical transmutation (an alchemical term), and forming what we call water.

Let's continue to call this mixture water, just for convenience, but keep the point in mind.I am sure that Thales and Aristotle, F. Bacon and R. Descartes, Heisenberg and Schrödinger, Roentgen and Samoilov hinted at this essence. But we didn't hear them, or didn't understand them. Now we can understand and see the essence of water (to be continued).

In the meantime, I apologize for the delay in publishing - we think