A Canadian correspondent says : "Being interested in grape growing the question has come up, are vines grown from green wood cuttings in all respects as good as when grown from ripened wood ?"

[Years ago when the public first became aware of the great march taken in the progress of improvement in grapes, the demand was enormous, and propagating from green wood resorted to in order to meet the great demand. In a few years disease and disaster followed, and it became clear that the vital power of vines so raised was not equal to that raised from matured wood. The practice was abandoned, and since then but very little difference has been found in the supposed hardiness of one kind more than another. Florists are now learning the same lesson over again in the case of the verbena and carnation. They are coming to the conclusion that the susceptibility of these plants in modern times, to various diseases they were exempt from years ago, comes from weakened vital power through continuous propagation from immature or green wood. All the facts tend to confirm this view, and though we do not suppose there would be any great injury result from one generation of grape propagation from green wood, it is dangerous to follow it through several. - Ed. G. M].