A curious discovery has recently been made public in France, in regard to the culture of vegetables and fruit trees. By watering with a solution of sulphate of iron, the most wonderful fecundity has been attained. Pear trees and beans, which have been submitted to this treatment, have nearly doubled in the size of their productions, and a noticeable improvement has been remarked in their flavor. A noted physician reports that, while at the head of an establishment at Engnein, or the sulphurous springs, he had the gardens and plantations connected with it watered, during several weeks of the early spring, with sulphurous water, and that not only the plantations prospered to a remarkable extent, but flowers acquired a peculiar brilliancy of coloring and healthy aspect which attracted universal attention.

Economy in Laying Out a Garden -The farmer's fruit and vegetable garden should be so arranged that it can be easily cultivated by horse-power . It is a good plan to lay out a rod or more at each end , of greensward where the horse can be turned around while either cultivating or plowing it . This would do away with a great deal of back-breaking work , and serve to keep he weeds well under , and the ground so stirred up that the crops would be highly remunerative . Grape vines could be planted along each side of the garden and trained to trellises .or fences . The vegetables should be planted in rows from north to south , and so far apart that the horse could be driven between the rows . Then dwarf pears and apples , plums , cherries and peach trees , could be planted in the same way , at one side , and kept under good culture . Thus arranged there would be hardly any hand-weeding or hoeing , for a one-horse steel plow could take their place , and the farmer , with very little trouble , could daily enjoy the products of both garden and orchard .