" W. C. B.," West Philadelphia, says : " Enclosed you will find a clipping from the Examiner of New York, describing a sunflower, the dimensions of which the paper seems to doubt. We have three large sunflowers, the largest of which we carefully measured and found it to be as follows: Height, 13 ft. 11 in.; circumference of stalk at base, 12 in. Some of its leaves are 18 in. across and 21 in. in length; the blossoms, large and small, number forty-two, the largest of which measures 8 in. in diameter - across brown center, not measuring yellow petals (?) In general appearance it resembles the one described in the clipping. I send you this, thinking it may be of interest to you. The extract is as follows:

"'Either a Hartford (Conn.) paper draws a pretty long bow, or there is a pretty large speci- men of a sunflower growing in that city. It grows, J the paper says, straight up, and stands about 12 ft. high, crowned with superb yellow blossoms, which droop from their own weight. Its sturdy stalk measures 9 in. in circumference. Some of its leaves, which hang like elephant's ears, are 18 in. long and 16 in. across. The blossoms, large and small, number between forty and fifty.' "