r.uAxiTK DrsT A Fertilizer. — A correspondent of the Washington JntfUigencer says: 

 *■ Whilo examining tlie granite quarries at Northbridge, Mass., a few days since, I had a 

 conversation with the workmen wlio were dressing out the stone, in reference to the dust 

 that they were rapping off with a Hat piece of board from the face of tlie stone tliey were 

 hammering. The dust is reduced in tlio liammering of the stone to an impalpable powder, 

 and will float in the air. I said to them that it would be well to try the vegetating powers 

 of this granite dust in a hill of corn. Tliey replied that it had been used in gardens and on 

 grass lands with great success, and that it was equal to the best manure. Tlie granite rocks 

 may be ground to an impalpable powder and used as a fertilizer. Feldspar, a component of 

 granite, yields potash, and may therefore be supposed to possess extraordinary fertilizing 

 power." 



The DnooRA, or Indian Millet. — This plant bears a small kind of grain, much cultivated 

 and extensively consumed in India and Egypt, and the interior of Africa; it is quite equal 

 in nutritive value to the average of English wheats, and yields a beautiful white flour. Prof. 

 Johnson, recently deceased, analyzed it, and found that it contained 11^ per cent, of gluten. 

 Now, since gluten is the chief nutritive ingredient of all our grains, this comparison of the 

 professor exhibits, at once, a nutritive value for the Dhoora that surpasses some of the richest 

 grains in use for the food of man or stock. 



Some of this grain has been raised this year by Major R. A. Griffin, of Abbeville, S. C, 

 and it has proven to be a valuable crop, as we leani by the Abbeville Banner. He planted 

 it some time in April, four feet in the row, and fifteen inches in the drill, depositing five or 

 six grains in a hill. He afterwards thinned down to one stalk, transplanting to hills that 

 were deficient. This thinning is necessary, from the strong tendency of the plant to sucker 

 and spread. The soil, such as would be selected for common com, should be properly pre- 

 pared and manured before planting ; the yield is from eighty to one hundred bushels per 

 acre. 



Extending his experiments, recently, to the green stalk of the Dhoora, Major G. discovered 

 a cause of its being so much relished by stock, and its singular fattening effects, in addition 

 to the excellent qualities of its grain. He found, on chewing the stalk, which he perceived 

 was consumed in tliis way by the stock, that it was exceedingly rich in cane juice — but little 

 inferior to the sugar cane itself. — Scientific American. 



Howard Daniels, Esq., architect of New York, has just returned from Europe with a port- 

 folio of drawings, and many useful and interesting facts regarding houses, gardens, &c., 

 which may be advantageously adopted in this country. Mr. Daniels was much interested 

 in the ornamental effects now produced in domestic architecture, by the proper display of 

 lirickwork, and has many designs to exhibit the results in a great variety of forms. This 

 style is just coming into fashion, and may be seen in some recent examples in Philadelphia, 

 where a prodigious effect is produced by simple means united to good judgment and 

 taste. 



A gentleman who spends his time and money in foreign lands studying their arts, as Mr. 

 Daniels has done, for the purpose of improving the taste of his countrymen, is entitled to as 

 much credit and notice as he who imports improved varieties of trees or fruits, or fine breeds 

 of animals, and more than the professional politicians who carry the day. Mr. Daniels is a 

 landscape gardener as well as architect, and his address is Broadway, New York. 



The Impostor's Graft. — ^Mention is made by Pliny, of a tree in the garden of Lucullus, at 

 Tivoli, which is described in his Natural History, On the trunk of one tree he saw branches 



