as lie did to those extraordinary evidences of our genial climate 
and productive soil.” 
We also take the following from the Olympia (W. T.) Tran¬ 
script, of Jan. 15th, 1870 :—“ On Monday last Mr. H. B. Wood¬ 
ward, of West Olympia, sent into this office a bouquet of flow¬ 
ers, containing twenty-two varieties, gathered from his open 
garden on that morning, Jan. 10th, 1870. Among them we no¬ 
ticed the following summer varieties:—the myrtle, marigold, 
daisy, roses, several varieties, flowering cabbage, wallflower, 
shellflower, honeysuckle, chrysanthemums, chamomile, etc. If 
any other place on the globe in 47°, north latitude, can produce 
such a selection of flowers, twenty-two different kinds, on a 
space of less than half a town lot, in the open air, on the east 
and north side of the house, and fully exposed to the north, 
northeast and east winds, let it speak out and tell its story. 
Mr. Woodward’s is not the only garden in which flowers are 
to be found. There are many of them. In our own little gar¬ 
den we find in full bloom a number of carnation pinks. Who 
can beat Olympia ?” 
Rivers. Many streams rush down the mountains, penetra¬ 
ting the plains to the sound, several of which are deep, draining 
rich farming lands. The largest are the Nootsack, Lummi, 
Swinimish, Skagit, Stilaquamish, Skykomish, Snohomish, Ce¬ 
dar, White, Dwamish, Puqallup, Nisqually and the Des Chutes. 
The rich bottoms bordering on those rivers, the broad bench 
lands fringing the mountains, and the level prairies margining 
the head waters of the sound afford ample fields for all branches 
of husbandry. 
Hon. Wm. Pickering, late Governor of Washington Territory, 
in his official message to the territorial legislature, submitted the 
following information to the u assembled wisdom “ The large 
extent or aggregate amount of rich soil well adapted for agri¬ 
cultural purposes, located in the western half of this territory, 
is not generally known even to our own citizens, for many parts 
remain undeveloped, and are rarely visited by white men. Let 
me invite your attention to a few statistical facts regarding it, 
the most of which, from personal observation, I know to be true, 
and the remainder I have from the most reliable sources. Be¬ 
ginning at the northern boundary and coming south along the 
meandering of the coast and Puget Sound, the Nootsak river 
has rich lands on both sides for 30 miles, Luinim 0, Samish 20, 
