This month is a good time for seeding down new lawns. Let the ground be first thoroughly prepared, that is, dug at least one foot - better to be eighteen inches - deep, and all of this depth to be of good rich loamy soil, not ten inches of poor clay or sand with two inches of top dressing, but all the depth of good loam suitable for growing a heavy crop of corn or a bed, of carrots; make the whole depth and quality of soil uniform, without regard to the rise and fall of the grades; in other words, do not form the soil in one place fourteen inches deep and in another only ten, and then calling it an average of one foot; because the lawn hereafter will tell of your work by its exhibit of rich green grass in the deep soil places and of yellow dried spots in the shallow ones; but make it all an even, regular depth, whether on a rising knoll or a low level grade. Rake and pulverize with the roller all the top surface as fine as an ash heap. When ready for sowing, procure for one acre - or in proportions according to the surface to be seeded - two bushels of Blue Grass, two bushels of Red Top, half a bushel of Creeping Bent, and one eighth bushel of White Clover; mingle them well together, and then divide into three equal parts.

Sow first one part; then go over the ground with a fine rake, say from north to south, raking the whole surface back and forth to lightly cover the seed; then sow another third portion of the seed, and repeat the raking cross - wise, or from.east to west; then sow the last remaining portion of seed, and with a heavy roller, roll or press the whole surface, both for the purpose of cementing the seed in the soil for vegetating, and also to prevent measurably the wash liable to accrue from rains. We sometimes see advice, of one bushel of seed to an acre; again, of two or three, with a sprinkling of rye, as they say, to shade the young grass, - the adviser probably forgetting that the strong, rank roots of the rye do more injury by extraction of moisture and food from the roots than the benefit, if there is any, obtained from its shade. Loudon, we believe, was in the practice of using from six to eight bushels of seed to the acre; Downing, from four to six; and our experience of twenty years over many and many an acre is, that if a good firm lawn is expected the first year, it is always unsafe to use less than four bushels, and that the addition of one or two bushels more well pays in the thick nest of grass readily grown and the lessening of labor in extracting weeds, that, where no grass is, will surely grow.

A top dressing of bone meal, ten bushels to the acre, with two bushels of salt, and one half bushel of gypsum (plaster), will also always be found a profitable expenditure.

Gather pears as soon as the stem will separate freely from the tree by gently raising the fruit. Place the pears in single layers and cover with flannel, when a few days only will elapse before they will ripen and color up even more beautifully than when left upon the tree, besides retaining, or rather developing, a more juicy character, - so that some varieties, of only second or third quality, when ripened on the tree, become nearly first-rate when house ripened.