Just as we are finishing up our last form, the following report comes to hand from Mr. Mottier, who will please accept our thanks. It is a valuable document, coming from three of the most experienced vine-growers at the West, and will be read with deep interest. In view of the large sums which are being yearly expended in the purchase of Delaware vines, it is a matter of the first importance that its character and hardiness should be speedily and definitively settled. We are desirous of having all reliable testimony on both sides of this question, so that it may be put beyond all reasonable dispute; we think it is already so. We have given our own opinion on this point, with the results of testimony collected from various sections of the country. The following is explicit, and to the point. 7b the President of the Cincinnati Horticultural Society:

Sir: - The committee who were appointed to take into consideration the cultivation and general treatment of grapes suited to our locality, and to ascertain what is the most advantageous variety for our use, submit the following report. The growing interest taken in the cultivation of hardy grapes for wine and table use, seems to your committee to call for better and more systematic treatment for our vineyards than we have generally found them to have received.

A very erroneous system of pruning is generally practised; that is, too short summer pruning, or breaking the shoot off at one leaf after the last bunch of grapes, instead of leaving three or four leaves to nourish the grapes, and keep them in good growing and healthy condition. The result of this short pruning is, that a part of the grapes never ripen, from a deficiency of foliage; for if the vines are stopped too short, not only does this cause a deficiency of leaves, but it hastens the maturity of the wood, and thereby causes the falling of the leaves before the maturity of the fruit After the leaves are off, the fruit makes no further improvement or ripening.

It is the opinion of your committee that grapes will undoubtedly pay better even than any other fruit or crops, if they receive good and proper cultivation; at least, we have found it so in our own practice, from an experience of thirty years.

In our visits we have found one vineyard which was managed in a manner deserving of high commendation. The same system of tying and summer pruning was practised in it as that which has been observed in the vineyard of the chairman of your committee. The results are such as to give unmin-gled satisfaction. In our visits we also found some promising new varieties of grapes. The Norton's Virginia Seedling, a dark-colored grape for red wine, is highly spoken of; but the Delaware stands at the head of all the hardy grapes, either for wine or the table. We have been watching the Delaware for three or four years very closely, and find that the vines stand the winter freezing and spring frosts better than the Catawba, equally exposed and unprotected. No rot or mildew has yet been discovered, and no falling of the leaves until the fruit is fully ripe; and it ripens fully three weeks earlier than the Catawba.

We have seven reasons why we place the Delaware at the head of the hardy grapes:

1st. Superior quality for table use. 2d. It produces finer and richer wine. 3d. The vino stands the winter freezing better than the Catawba. 4th. It stands the spring frosts better. 5th. The grapes never rot. 6th. No falling-of the leaves until the grape is ripe. 7th. The certainty of their growing, and the general hardiness and healthiness of the vine.

The chairman of this committee has already planted twelve hundred Delaware vines with such success that he is preparing the ground for twelve hundred more in the spring. Dr. S. Mosher, R. Buchanan. J. E. Mother, Ch'n.