A correspondent from St. Paul, Minnesota, writes: "As a reader of the Gardeners' Monthly for many years I have become a firm believer in its teachings, but was sadly disappointed by following the advice given on page 167 of the June number regarding the treatment of lawns. My lawn, created at great expense and about eight years old, not doing as well as formerly, I had about concluded needed some fertilizer, and was on the point of sending to Henderson for his lawn enricher when your article appeared. I applied the salt some two weeks ago and it killed the entire grass in three days, and to this date there is no sign of its reappearance. Will it spring up again? If not, I will plow up and re-seed".

[It was not an editorial suggestion, but one from a correspondent who simply said that " a small application of salt is an excellent practice, though old." He was not giving directions, but referring to an old and well known practice, and referring to the action of the salt air on the excellent growth of lawn grass at Newport, in Rhode Island. The trouble in our correspondent's case comes from his misunderstanding of the term "small application." He gave a large application. Salt for lawns should be very fine salt, and should be sown so thinly that one could scarcely see that any had been used, except perhaps a very slight grey tint to the green of the grass, and it should be applied early so that the spring rains might leach it a little before the growth commences.

What to do in the present unfortunate condition of affairs is not clear from this distant view. The next rain will leach some of the salt away, when there will not be too much for vegetation, unless an extraordinary amount of salt has been used. Some of the roots will probably then grow, and we should in October rake the whole over and sow fresh seed. It will no doubt be a first-class lawn again next season. - Ed. G. M].