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SALTPETRE ON SEEDS AND PLAsIEl FLowERs.-Hart Mussey, Esq, of hs / lage, took small portion of the com

 which he planted a field, and soaked

 solution of tho salts of nitre, commonly

 saItpetre, and planted-fve rows wlAh thus prepared. Now for the result

 five rows planted with corn prepafa

 saltpetre, yielded more than twenty-fHt planted without any preparation. Ihil rows were untouched by the worms

 the remainder of the field suffered as by their depredations We shouldndgi gi not one grain saturated with salpeH1 1 touched, while almost every hill inti| joining row suffered severely. Noon1 will examine the field can doubt the eff of the preparation. He-will be astonsh the striking difference between the fRr and the remainder of the field.

 MT. M. also stated the result of an'a' experiment. He has a fine, thrifty, ha' apple tree, about twenty-five or thirty y old; but it has never, in any one year duced over about two bushels of aPFPa While in the blossom last spring, he asfen the tree and sprinkled plaster freely .9 0a blossoms, and the result is that 1t VIII year yield twenty bushels of apples

 Concordia htclhggeMl'

 For three years we have published !, ', time to time experiments and statemens'n, ing the value of the saltpetre soak TOT ~ and other seeds, and yet probably no al \ tenth of our readers use this or any f,S SI soak. For several years we have soaASa Y, our corn with the most gratifying It. ,,.I None of it has ever been touched 2! grub, against which we, therefore, Its'.s' 5 .@ saltpetre as a perfect protectlon' anu x. 5 with rapidity that shames the slusssg, < of grass and weeds. We planted s0n, ,.1 this year, on the 9th of May, soaked l a. .a'i ~i and in just tweniy-eight days it stood % w, %a { two inches high-ground rich but ,,l''. n"' nured this year. A pound oi Sal.l.1 af ,ar enough water to cover bushei 9l ,s,.sl, Si about the proportion. Dof1ar r~