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contains eighty-five trees in an area of fifty acres. The trees 

 generally average three hundred feet in height. The largest 

 perfect tree standing is ninety-five feet in circumference at 

 the base, and three hundred and twenty-five feet high. The 

 largest in the group has been blown down, and is decidedly 

 and undoubtedly the largest tree in the world. It is one 

 hundred and ten feet in circumference at the base, and the 

 height, when standing, must have been four hundred and fifty 

 feet ; three hundred feet from its base it measures twelve feet 

 in diameter. This tree is supposed by good judges to have 

 been blown down 07ie thousand years since ; from counting 

 the concentric layers it is over three thousand years old, and 

 contains over three hundred cords of solid timber. Mr. Lobb, 

 collector for Messrs. Veitch & Co. of Exeter, England, discov- 

 ered these trees in 1850, and sent specimens to England. 

 Now, Sir, an American trapper or hunter first discovered the 

 trees in 1848 ; his name is Dow. Therefore, I take the liber- 

 ty of naming this mammoth tree of the world, Washingtonia 

 GiGANTEA. Plcasc to iutroducc at once the name as above, 

 the lawfully and the (to my mind) only proper name for the 

 King of the forests. See that it receives the name of ours 

 truly, the American hero, of the new World. The timber 

 when dry is as light as the lightest wood ; when green, very 

 heavy. Forty couple frequently dance on the base of one of 

 these trees. It is worth a voyage to California to see these 

 wonderful trees. 



THE DEUTZIA GRACILIS. 



BY THE EDITOR. 



This lovely little shrub, having proved quite hardy in our 

 climate, has became an object of increasing interest. Indeed 

 every new hardy shrub is especially interesting to all lovers 

 of plants ; for the accessions of such to our gardens are neces- 

 sarily iew, and not often of any remarkable beauty. The only 

 notable additions of the latter description during several years 

 having been the ^SpiraVi prunifolia pleno, Forsythm viridissi- 



