A very large holly, or rather clump of hollies, grew upon the edge of a marsh on the Rappahannock river. The very high tides and heavy rains of the past year so loosened the roots in the soft, yielding soil that the tree fell over and lay quite prostrate upon its side. While lying there it continued to live, but its weight drove some of its boughs several inches in the earth. Here these broken stumps of branches plowed furrows in the earth from the action of the wind, and became encrusted with earth dug from these farrows. Having occasion recently to pass the tree, I was surprised to find that the entire tree had righted itself several feet and resumed almost its former position. The fact was evident, as there still remained the furrows which the broken limbs had plowed and the limbs themselves were still coated with the earth which had been excavated, but they had risen so much from the earth that they could not be brought back into the furrows again even by a strong exertion. I never heard of such an instance as this restoration to its former position of so large a tree as this holly, which must have been quite ten or twelve inches in diameter, and fully thirty feet tall. - P. S. Hunter, Essex County, Va.