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NITRATE OF SODA.— Farmers find from one to two hundred weight per acre a good dressing for their land ; and therefore this quantity may be regarded, for the present, as a safe proportion for ordinary crops. When used on a smaller scale, we are much in want of information as to its proper proportion if mixed with water. The following, however, seem to be ascertained facts : — Six ounces in four gallons of water suit lettuce and celery ; one pound in twelve gallons is a safe quantity for dahlias. Strawberries are much improved by it in the proportion of one ounce to a gallon. In other cases, onions are reported to be much improved by water holding the nitrate of soda in solution in the proportion of one pound to eight gallons. Its effects are extremely active on coniferous plants, applied in a top-dressing at the rate of one hundred pounds per acre. About its action, under favourable circumstances, there can be no doubt. Fir-trees have been changed from yellow to deep green in about a fortnight from the time of the application. We have seen similar effects upon common shrubs in a worn-out gravelly soil ; and the rapidity with which the crops to which it has been applied acquired a deep green healthy colour is generally spoken of. Sometimes, however, it is stated to produce no effect. This may have been owing to the land on which it has been used already abounding in alkaline matter, so that any further addition has been useless ; or it may have arisen from the nitrate having been used in a bad season of the year. — Gardener1 s Chronicle. NITRE, Sweet Spirits of Nitre. — This is employed as a diuretic, antispasmodic, diaphoretic, and refrigerant in inflammatory affections. It is a good and useful diuretic in dropsies, especially in some of the mild forms of the complaint, as in dropsy following scarlatina. It is given with squills, acetate or nitrate of potash, freely diluted with barley water. As a carminative and antispasmodic it is combined with the same quantity of spirit of lavender, and is useful in relieving flatulency and sickness. As a diaphoretic or sweating draught, in febrile complaints, it should be given with twenty or thirty drops of antimonial wine, and a tea-spoonful of liquid acetate of ammonia. The usual dose of spirits of nitre is from half a teaspoonful to two or three teaspoonfuls diluted with water. NITRE DROPS. — Nitre, 3 ounces ; sugar, 1 pound ; water to mix. Add a few drops of essence of lemon, or oil of cassia. NITRE LOZENGES.— 1. Nitrate of potash (pure,) 4 parts ; white sugar, 26 parts. Powder fine, and mix with mucilage. For sore throat, &c. 2. Nitre, 4 ounces ; sugar, 16 ounces ; and essence of lemon, 3 ounces. Mix with mucilage. NOISE IN THE EARS.— Drop in juice of onions. NORFOLK DUMPLINGS.— Milk, half a pint, 2 eggs, salt; make them into a thick batter with flour; roll into balls, aDd drop them into a pan of boiling water; from 15 to 30 minutes will boil them. Eat while hot with a little sugar, butter or treacle. NORFOLK PUDDING PUFFS.— Mix three eggs, three tablespoonfuls of flour, half a pint of NOS 2 77 OCI cream, and two tablespoonfuls of orange- flower or rose-water; sweeten to taste ; put the batter in large deep custard cups, half full ; set them in the oven ; when the puff rises to the top of the cups, they are done. NOSE, Bleeding at the. — See Page 67.