The Placer Herald

Important Discovery.—A curious discovery has recently been made public in France, in regard to the culture of vegetable 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 the productions, and a noticeable improvement is marked in their favor. Dr. Becourt reports that while at the head of the establishment at Eugbien of the sulphurous springs, he had the gardens and plantation connected with it, watered during several weeks of the early spring, with sulphurous water, and that not only the plantation prospered to a remarkable extent, but the flowers acquired a peculiar brilliancy of coloring and healthy aspect which attracted universal attention.