Mr. 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 corn, we go by the old rhyme, when dropping the grains -

"One for the blackbird, one for the crow, Two for the outworn, and three left to grow," and we generally make out to have good crops. I rather think we can beat" West Town*' in corn, 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).

"To prevent bleeding at the longs: Take a hoptoad, and lay it on a hot shovel, and while it is broiling, hold your face over the steam, so as to get the smell and the scent good, and the blood will soon stop, etc. etc".

Should any of your West Town correspondents try this experiment, I should like to know the result, for I have not tried it myself.

Respectfully, John Quill.

Cincinnati, Feb. 15,1856.