As corroborative of the information in the former number, regarding the grapes at San Jose we quote the following extract from a private letter lately received by us from an intelligent lady in San Francisco: "The neighborhood of San Jose, sixty miles south of this, must have a better climate than ours, for they are already, (September,) sending us their grapes in most picturesque clusters a foot long. These grapes are arranged differently upon the bunches from any I ever saw, being placed, large and small, so after form a long, taperingy regular cluster. I ought to add that there is in their taste a dash of wild flavor, like that of our Frost Grapes. But I am told they are sweet and rich, when fully ripe." It is clearly worth some pains to get these California grapes into oar gardens. Ed.

Remarks #1

Our correspondent is severe upon New-England taste, and he is partly just and partly unjust. Partly just, because no where does one sec so many snug houses belonging to persons of moderate means, the proportions of which are so faulty, and the accessories so rigidly wanting in grace, as in many parts of that portion of the Union; partly unjust, because the country villages of New-England, with their beautiful avenues of elms, and their republican air of rural order and adornment, afford evidences of taste far above that of the rural towns of the rest of the country.

We suspect the truth is, that the majority of the New-Englanders have given the subject less thought than in any part of the country. Whatever the New-Englander bestows thought upon, grows into new life under his hand. But there are much fewer examples of good taste in gardening and architecture, set by men of large wealth in New-England, (if we except the environs of Boston,) than in New York or Pennsylvania, while there are more houses built, and places laid out by working-men of small means there, than in any other part of the country. If we could establish a school in every considerable town in New-England, next year, where drawing should be taught to artisans and mechanics - we would undertake to promise that the whole taste of the country should be revolutionised in ten years. The building of all the cottages of New-England is, at the present time, almost solely in the hands of carpenters, nine-tenths of whom can neither draw, nor understand a drawing. When, therefore, a person presents a country carpenter in New-England with a design for a cheap cottage, of a form superior to, or different from, the stereotyped bastard pediment style, so common all oyer New-England, the latter immediately says, - "Oh! that is a very dear style of cottage.

But I will build you one like deacon C.'s, which is ten feet larger each way, for (200 less." This of course, decides the proprietor of moderate means, who is ignorant of the true state of the case, to build in the bastard pediment style. The truth is, the carpenter has the latter by heart, and knows to a dollar what he can do the job for. The other he has only a vague idea of - and would lose money on, from experimental blunders of all kinds - though not a farthing dearer in itself. Knowing this fact by heart, (by constant contact with it,) and knowing also, how superior to any other mechanic a Yankee carpenter is, whose thinking and working faculties have been educated - we long for the time when the common schools of New-England shall do something more than common. If they would only teach drawing, taste would just as sure follow, as spelling follows the alphabet. It is impossible for man or woman, however well he may think, to express his ideas on paper, (or in houses and grounds,) in anything better than hard lines and "pothooks," till he has learned how to make the mental and the material correspond.