DOMESTIC NOTIOES. 



Doiiifiitir 3\h\\ttB. 



New York, Feb. 18, 1856. 

 Dear Sir : Cannot you say a word in favor of the " Agrostis Stolonifera for Lawns ?" From 

 its extreme dwarf habits (rendering frequent mowing xinnecessary), combined with its 

 resisting intense sunheat, and for retaining its rich green lines tlirough the summer, it is 

 preferable to red-top, greensward, or any other of the grasses. It is used for the pui-poses 

 of lawns in the South of Europe, to the exclusion of all others. 



Yours truly, J. M. Tiiorburn & Co. 



The private correspondence of Downing is good. 



Burr Creek, Michigan. 



We never tire of hearing about him. 



Charles Betts. 



Green Castle, Inc., February 12, 1856. 

 Dear Sir : I wish you to send me the Horticulturist, and for one year. I am glad to in- 

 form you that we have been making up our premium list of 1856, of Putnam County, and 

 made quite a number of your most excellent journal. I think we have, in our list of pre- 

 miums, some twenty -three volumes of the Horticulturist — quite a number with colored plates. 

 We are the banner county in the West, I think, in advertising the Horticulturist. I am 

 anxious to have it circulated among our people ; I shall do all I can to this end. 



Yours respectfully, John S. Jennings. 



Orange Watermelon Seed. — Me. Editor ; I see inquiries made as to where the above- 

 named seed can be had. If you will do your subscribers the favor to mention this, I have 

 some seed to spare, and will send, to any person who will remit a postage stamp to prepay 

 the postage on the seed, a pack of one dozen seeds of the above, of my own growing. 



I consider it a valuable melon, and easily raised, and one which ought to be disseminated, 

 and not held by a few, some of them charging fifty cents for half a dozen seeds (which was 

 the price of those I first got). 



Yours, Samuel Miller, Calmdale, Lebanon Co., Pa. 



Editor of the Horticulturist : I am highly pleased with the wonderful discoveries of your 

 "West Town" correspondent (page 94, in your February number). The only drawback is, 

 that he keeps them secret, and has applied for a patent. I hope he may sell the patent-right 

 cheap, for we Western chaps would like to know how to keep bugs off vines, especially as he 

 says it is a sure cure, and to know how to raise 580 bushels potatoes to the acre, without any 

 manure except plaster and ashes. 



For our Western corn crops, the crow and cutworm patent will not be so valuable. In 

 planting com, we go by the old rhyme, when dropping the grains — 



" One for the blackbird, one for the crow, 

 Two for the cutworm, and throe left to grow," 



and we generally make out to have good crops. I rather think we can beat " West Town" 

 in com, and give it the benefit of the patent to boot. Amongst my books on Agriculture, is 

 one published by David Seaman, in 1853, entitled " The Fruit Raisers' and Farmers' Guide 

 and Receipt Book, and how to Protect against Disease by Working with the Course of 

 Nature." In that valuable work I find the following useful recipe, which I give to your 

 West Town correspondent gratis, the author having never taken out a patent for it. (Page 51 . ) 



