One of the most remarkable vines we have ever seen is now in full bearing in Kaye's Nursery at Finchley. It is not so large as either the Hampton Court or Cumberland Lodge vines - much smaller, in fact; but in point of size of bunch neither of these, nor any other vines we are acquainted with, approach it. The Cumberland Lodge vine is considerably finer than the Hampton Court, and bears about 2,000 bunches, looking meanwhile as if cribbed and confined for room, as the shoots reach the extremity of the great house, and are there cut off, just as we are obliged to do in small vineries; but one of the Finchley bunches is as large as three of those we have seen at Hampton Court and Cumberland Lodge. The fact is, the vine may be grown to a fabulous size if supplied with all the root room it can occupy, and a suitable soil, and with house-room, so that there is not so much of the remarkable about those two famous vines; but the Finchley vine, while extraordinary as regards size, is still more so, as we have said, for the size of its bunches.

The curious part of the matter is, that no unusual pains were spent upon the making of the border in which this fine vine grows. It is made on a hard clay bottom, a considerable quantity of brick rubbish being placed on that part, with a slope to a drain at the front of the border which is about fifteen feet wide. It is not quite raised above the level of the surrounding ground, as most borders are with our great growers. The soil of the border is not that epicurean kind of loam recommended by most writers on the vine, but just the top spit which had been cleared off building ground in various parts of the district - now and then very sandy, occasionally of a stiff and unctuous clayey texture, with here and there a lot of brick rubbish; in short, a mixture of the better kinds of earth and rubbish which are so easily obtained in a suburban or other district where much building is going on. The border is about four feet in depth. No manure is mixed with its ingredients, except what little may descend from the remains of the annual winter covering of stable manure with which it is protected during the winter and early spring months. The house is 89 feet long by 18 feet wide, span roofed, and heated with hot-water pipes.

The vine enters at the middle of one side, and goes across the roof, making five equal breaks, or, in other words, sending five fine opposite branches to each end of the house, the base of the main stem being of great thickness for a vine which has not been planted ten years. It quite fills the house, and would no doubt furnish three times the superficies it now does if the house and border were sufficiently extended. At the time of our visit it bore about 800 magnificent bunches of grapes, running from 2 lb. to 5 lb. weight each. What struck us as most remarkable was that the bunches were equally fine all over the house, the lowest and farthest extremities of the building exhibiting bunches as heavy and as fine as the highest and most favorable parts. Usually, with ordinary vines, much discrepancy occurs between the bunches on the same rod. It is doubtful if such a crop of heavy bunches was ever before shown by one plant, as however large we may grow the poor Syrian and other grapes, of large bunch but inferior quality, to obtain such bunches as these of the Black Hamburgh, even on a vine of the ordinary size, is considered very good work. The attainment of the result we have mentioned by simple means is well worthy of record.

It surely proves that vine culture of the highest character is a much more simple affair than amateurs and many practical horticulturists believe it to be. There are many glass arcade roofs that might be highly embellished and rendered profitable by such a plant as this. If the amateur instead of building a few distinct small houses, would erect a good roomy one, and cover the roof with vines, it would give much more satisfaction than is often attained by those who have not much time or attention to devote to glasshouses. A large span-roofed vinery of the sort might be made to afford a very agreeable promenade in winter, a home for considerable quantities of green-house and bedding plants, shelves for early-potted strawberries on each side, room for a fine bloom of chrysanthemums in autumn, and not a few other things for which special structures are often provided. In summer, when the fruit would be ripening, and the foliage occupying the roof, we care very little for the indoor garden, and are usually too glad to leave it, while the plants we have named must, for the most part, be out of doors or in frames.-. - The Field.