Having been a reader of your journal for some time, and often had a desire to pass a remark on many of your practical observations, has induced me to do so at this time.

I perceive in the April number of the Horticulturist your directions to " A Subscriber" how to raise " Norway Spruce from seed." I would therefore beg to differ a little from your method In the extensive seedling nurseries of Scotland, where they are very successful, their system is, previous to sowing, should the weather incline to be dry, (such as we have in this climate), they generally immerse the bags of seed in shallow ponds of water (with a store to keep the bags under) for eight or ten days; it is then turned out of the bags, on a deal floor, in a cool, temperate place, for forty-eight hours, to dry gradually.

In preparing the ground there is a great deal of nicety and judgment required. The ground should be well under-drained and well thrown up roughly with the spade, the fall previous, in such a manner as to catch the frost to pulverize so as it may crumble down when the spade and rake enters again at sowing time. The ground is not all dug over and then raked, as is generally done by many when preparing for garden seeds. After two or three spades are turned over, a coarse rake is applied to break the clods; a second comes after, and a third, to level- that is only where there are a number of spades are going at the same time, The ground is then marked off into four-feet beds and fifteen-inch alleys, with a heavy, square, or round-headed, rake. The operator (technically called cuffing) stands sideways, one foot before the other, at the right hand alley, and commences, with the head or back of the rake, to move back the soil from the center of the bed to the opposite alley to the depth of three or four inches, taking care to keep in a straight line to form the edge of the bed, and keeps moving on around the bed in the same way until all is thrown back, which soil is to serve as the covering for the seed. In cuffing much depends on the weather - if moist, shallow; if dry, a little deeper.

The seed is then thrown regular on the bed by the person taking up one-half and down the other, at the same time being careful not to tramp on the soil cuffed out of the bed. When all is sown, a small roller the width of the bed is drawn over the seed, or it is pressed in with the back of the spade, A abort-toothed rake is then introduced to draw the cuffed soil over the seed, which must be done with a smart jerk of the right hand; a little is then thrown up out of the alley and finally a fine rake traces over the top of the bed to make it a little regular. Sometimes in dry weather any waste small nursery stock is laid thinly over the bed to shade and keep the birds off while it is coming through the ground. A Nurseryman. - Mt. Pleasant, C. W.