New York, Feb. 18,1856. Dear Sir: Cannot you say a word in favor of the "Agrostis Stolonifera for Lawns?" From its extreme dwarf habits (rendering frequent mowing unnecessary), combined with its resisting intense sunheat, and for retaining its rich green lines through the summer, it is preferable to red-top, greensward, or any other of the grasses. It is used for the purposes of lawns in the South of Europe, to the exclusion of all others.

Yours truly, J. M. Thorburn & Co.

Burr Creek, Michigan. The private correspondence of Downing is good. We never tire of hearing about him.

Charles Betts.

Greet Castle, Ind., February 12,1856. Dear Sir: I wish you to send me the Horticulturist, and for one year. I am glad to inform you that we have been making up our premium list of 1856, of Putnam County, and made quite a number of your most excellent journal. I think we have, in our list of premiums, some twenty-three volumes of the Horticulturist - quite a number with colored plates. We are the banner county in the West, I think, in advertising the Horticulturist, I am anxious to have it circulated among our people; I shall do all I can to this end.

Yours respectfully, John S. Jennings.

Domestic Notices #1

J. M. Thorburn, seedsman, of New York, asks if "you cannot say a word in favor of 'Agrostis stolonifera' for lawns?" I trust yon will say no such thing; but I will take the liberty to say a word, by asking another question. Is the humbuggery of these seedsmen, who would sell old Nick himself, if they could get anybody to buy him, never to stop? For lawns! In simple English, this "Agrostis stolonifera" is the Fiorin, one of the abominations of all good gardeners and farmers, commonly called quack, couch, or twitch grass - a perfect pest wherever it obtains foothold, propagating itself by the coarse, stout-jointed root, as tough as wire, and a vitality equal to the houseleek, or live-forever, of the gardens. Nothing but burning will kill it. It loves a coarse, boggy soil, and, for the credit of America, is not a native, bat an European production, described in Sinclair's celebrated catalogue of grasses, which he made up for the Duke of Bedford. Let the "South of Europe" cultivate it if they will, but deliver it from American lawns 1 Before this gets into print, perhaps a hundred torn-noddy lawn-makers will order the pestilent stuff for their door-yards, where they might better introduce the Canada thistle, for that can be extirpated.

I have heard these "lawn grasses" discussed till I am sick of the very name, as if the beautiful turf of our natural pastures had neither beauty nor fragrance in them.

The finest grasses for American lawns we can have, are what grow on every roadside throughout the Middle and Northern States, and are, simply, the Poos irivialis, compressa, and protends, known under the common denominations of spear, June, and blue-grass; to these may be added the Poa viridts, or green-grass of Dr. Muhlenberg, and the common white clover - Trifolium repens. A mixture of all these, or either variety of the Poa, with the white clover, make the best possible American lawn grasses. Every spring of my life I have met people running about, half demented, inquiring where they could get "lawn grass seed," as if there was but one grass fit for it. The "lawn" grasses, advertised usually by the seedsmen, are either nothing but the common grasses of the country, or some tender "foreign" variety, totally unfit to withstand our heats and frosts, while the Poos, and white clover, make a soft, beautiful, compact turf, thick as wool, and requiring less cutting than any other grasses whatever.