Lane County Agricultural Society, Oregon

President, A. A. Smith; Vice-Presidents, J. Southwell, W. S. Brock, N. G. Coleman, and M. Wilkins; Recording Secretary, S. Ellsworth; Corresponding Secretary, M. H. Harlow; Treasurer, F. McMurray; Committee on Agriculture, George BelBhaw, William Smith, and E. Powers; On Manufactures, J. L. Brumley, I. R. Moores, and J. Davis; On Domestic Animals H. G. Hadley, W. S. Wilson, and J. Van-dyne.

A Langlflora Alba

Large, white, with lilac veins; an old but a very, choice variety. No collection can be complete without it.

The Language Of Flowers

We often hear of the " pink of propriety," Can we not with equal propriety speak of the "lie-lack of truth "? Is holly-hock to be added to our list of wines? How will the disturbed state of the Continent affect the coming up of single and double stocks ? Is it likely to interfere with the dividend on the Ten Weeks Stocks ? The emblem of Ireland is a Sham-rock; a pink would be more appropriate for a carnation. Fun.

Larfe Trees

Since we made mention, some time since, of a few grand old trees, other journals have been hunting up some " big ones," within the circle of their knowledge. The London Garden says there are a few very large trees growing at Longleat, among which are a horse-chestnut fifteen feet seven inches in circumference five feet above the ground; a specimen of Salisburia sixty-three feet high and six feet in circumference five feet above the ground; and a Yew, about 120 years old, which is fifty feet high, with circumference of stem thirty-two feet a foot above ground, and a diameter of head about fifty feet. A tulip tree is also described 100 feet high, and eleven feet six inches in circumference five feet above ground. A tulip tree was measured by J. J. Thomas, many years ago, growing near Cayuga Lake, which when cut measured 124 feet high, and by counting the annual rings, found it was ninety years old when America was discovered.

A Large .Bed

Make a bed, oblong, elliptical or quadrangle, with rounded corners, 17 feet broad, 51 feet long. Put Abutilon Thompsonii along the middle, next a row of dark velvet Coleus, next a row of Achyran-thus reticulata aureus, next row of Golden Coleus, then a row of silver leaved plants, and Alternanthera outside. Let the roses be 18 inches apart, and plant 15 inches apart in the rows - the outside row to be a fool inside the edge.

Fine flower seeds, such as portulacca, petunia, etc., should be sown on the surface, pressed in, and then watered with a fine rose.

Large Bed Prool, Or Bigarreau De Prool. A Grot Fruit

This is the largest of all cherries, and one of the very finest; the tree is of great vigour, with large, somewhat pendulous foliage. It was imported at the same time as the preceding, and my specimen tree on Mahaleb is 35 feet high. I have several times stated, that Downing's " Great Bigarreau" was one or the other of these varieties, and that the original " Great Bigarreau" tree at Coldenham, which is on Mahaleb, was sold there by my father; and on a recent visit from Mr. Chas. Downing, he recognized its identity with the Large Bed Prool. At that period no other Nursery in the Union used the Mahaleb Stock but ourselves.