Under date of Aug. 22d, Mr. Lorin Blodget, Philadelphia, writes: "I have a remarkable grape vine, a Lindley, or Rogers' Hybrid, No. 9, planted in 1866. Grapes are now ripening on it a distance of thirty feet east of the root or stem, and eighty-five feet west sixty-five feet horizontal, and about thirty feet elevation. It covers a trellis thirty feet high on the east end of the house; also a slope twenty by fifteen feet on the eastern roof, then runs fifty-five feet along a north wall, and rises ten feet to the fourth-story roof, full of grapes throughout, and especially loaded on the trellis running thirty-five feet east, down the garden. I estimate its crop at 400 to 500 pounds, and all are very large and fine, although the Rogers Hybrid bunches are not usually symmetrical."

[It is a fact, made more apparent as the years go by, that the shade and shelter of city yards are more favorable to the grape than open fields or vineyards. There is a valuable lesson here, from which extensive grape-growers might profit. Successful, however, as city yards are in grape growing, the case of Mr. Blodgett is one of exceptional interest. - Ed. G. M.]