With a beautiful specimen, Mr. John Cullen, gardener to E. P. Wilbur, Esq., of South Bethlehem, writes: "I have forwarded by mail to-day one mushroom, cut on Sunday morning, weighing when cut 13 ounces; grown in the mushroom-beds of Mr. E. P. Wilbur, President of Lehigh Valley R. R., South Bethlehem, Pa. Please let me know by mail what you think of it, and if worthy, make a note of it in Gardeners' Monthly. I cut mushrooms daily similar to one sent from the beds that it was grown in".

[The weight is correctly given, and it measured nine inches across. We never saw a larger or finer specimen in a cultivated state. In 1871 the writer gathered one on the volcanic soil that covered the buried forest in South Park, Colorado, that was ten inches across. This is the largest one the Editor has any note of. It was not eaten, but was undoubtedly a true specimen of the common edible mushroom. - Ed. G. M].