As this vegetable is beginning to attract some attention among horticultu-tsts, it may not be amiss to make a few observations on its qualities as an article of food and rofit Season before last, Mr. Lea, of the Cincinnati Horticultural Society, presented the members with one or two heads of this prolific Bean, or Pea, as it is called. From fourteen seeds I aised nearly a quart of dry Beans when hulled. That was in a rich border of leaf mold. But hey were planted too close together - only three inches apart. Some had more than 200 pods n them, with two or three seeds in each. This year I tried them in rather poor soil, where )sage Orange plants grew the previous year, which, according to my experience, impoverishes he soil very much. I planted eight rows thirty yards long, the rows two feet apart, and the Jeans six inches apart in the rows. They produced about half a bushel of dry seed, which would be about sixteen bushels to the acre. In good ground, I have no doubt they could be made to ield twenty bushels, go much for profit.

With respect to its qualities for the table, there is not much to say in its favor. When green, is so difficult to divest it of the hull that it will be unpopular with cooks. When dry, they re easily cleaned or shelled with a flaiL They require at least five hours boiling to make them rader enough to cat, but I do not believe any amount of boiling would cause them to burst. It will be necessary to cook some other Bean with them, as they are entirely destitute of flavor.

They grow from two to three feet high, with stiff, branching stems, and look beautiful in the garden. They stood last season's drouth remarkably well, not dropping a single leaf until frost.

If any of your readers would like to try them, I shall be most happy to enclose them a few in letter, if they will address me post-paid. T. Y. Petioolas. - Mount Carmel, Clermont Co., Ohio.

Japan Pea #1

We are also indebted to the Celestial Empire for this plant, now pretty extensively disseminated, and I have often been asked the question: What it is good for? If you will soak them over night in warm water, and, next day, give them a good cooking, serve them up as Lima .beans, and do not say they are superior to beans, then I can only say, " tastes differ." The Pea is raised with less trouble, and produces more abundantly in all soils and all seasons than Lima beans. Last spring, we received two new varieties of the Japan Pea via California, nothing different, however, except in color, one being green, and the other red.

These new productions are well worth attending to, and neither of those enumerated will be classed with Rohan Potato or multicaule " humbugs," in a few years hence.

It seems as if nature were always provident. Although I am not yet "the oldest inhabitant," I can nevertheless well remember the time when water, horse, hand, and all other "powers," were becoming inadequate to the demand; then, at the very "nick of time," steam became the " motor;" wood was rapidly decreasing in quantity, and increasing in price - lo! and behold 1 black rocks were found an admirable substitute 1 Hickory and birch brooms could no more be had to do the "sweeping;" then broomcorn makes its appearance just when people began to fear that " sweeping" was soon to be " one of the institutions" that had become extinct Hemp, flax, and wool, were at one time so inadequate to the demand, that serious thoughts began to arise in the minds of many, how, if population should continue to increase, the people could find materials to " hide their nakedness." Again comes the substitute, just when most needed, in the name of cotton. Thus, as any one particular article becomes scarce or exhausted, Providence provides a substitute.

Japan Peas #2

The Mobile Register says: "We claim the honor of having started the new interest in the Japan peas, and we are really proud of it, for the Japan pea is, undoubtedly, one of the best things climatically secured to the South. It is easily raised, will grow on almost any character of soil,-yields heavily, and is entirely exempt from attack by either the pea or the bean weevil. As a food for man we think it has no equal in the pea or bean line, and it makes a stock feed almost equal to corn. Hogs relish it and fatten upon it, and poultry of all kinds seem to want nothing better. Sown thickly upon the land it makes the very best of hay, and a green-feed stock will eat it in preference to anything else."