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The First Tivo Country Meetings , &c. 
exhibited, &c., at the first and second meetings held at - the two 
University towns : — 
— 
First Meeting 
at Oxford, 
1839 
First Meeting 
at Cambridge, 
1840 
Second 
Meeting at 
Oxford, 
1870 
Second 
Meeting 
at Cam- 
bridge, 
1894 
Amount of Prizes offered 
Number of Entries of : 
£890 
£900 
£3>5 2 5 
£5.433 
Horses .... 
24 
35 
203 
617 
Cattle .... 
92 
96 
435 
659 
Sheep .... 
81 
138 
548 
588 
Pigs .... 
16 
18 
191 
— 
“ Extra Stock ” 
34 
50 
— 
— 
No. of Implement Exhibitors. 
19 
31 
406 
442 
Number of Paying Visitors . 
about 20,000 
about 25,000 
75-749 
.. 
Total Receipts 
£2,394 
£3,416 
£11,892 
— 
Total Expenditure . 
3,556 
4,354 
14.397 
t 
The contrast between the five acres of Parker’s Piece and the 
64 acres of Midsummer Common, between the 337 entries of stock 
and 115 of implements in 1840 and the 1,864 entries of stock 
(besides 705 of poultry, and 538 of produce) and the 6,031 
entries of implements in 442 stands in 1894, gives rise to many 
reflections as to the origin, progress, and probable future of the 
Society’s annual gatherings, which have now become so important 
a part of agricultural history. It is gratifying to find the same 
interest and the same enthusiasm in the Show displayed by 
members in these latter days as at the beginning of the Society’s 
life ; and it may be hoped that the annual gatherings of the 
Society may never lose the hold which they have so long retained 
upon the affections of agriculturists at large. 
Ernest Clarke. 
12 Hanover Square, W. 
WILLOWS AND THEIR CULTIVATION. 
Classification of the Willows. 
The genus Salix, to which the Willows belong, is admittedly 
one of the most complicated sections of the British Flora. There 
have been numerous lists prepared, both by botanists and by 
those engaged in the consideration of the subject from a more 
strictly commercial point of view, and it is scarcely possible 
to find two lists, prepared independently, that on comparison 
will even approximately agree with each other. The points of 
