The past winter has been peculiarly hard on Grape-vines. The older kinds, such as Isabella and Catawba, have been nearly killed in favorable localities, where we have never known them to be injured before. Such a winter may not recur again in a lifetime; still, it is interesting to know what kinds are able to withstand even such vicissitudes. We are now collecting statistics bearing on the subject. The following is from a letter from Mr. Seelye of Rochester, N. Y.

"I have on one trellis several vines of Isabella, together with one Delaware, one Diana, one Elizabeth, and one Hartford Prolific These vines are from six to eight feet high, well formed, with laterals. During the past winter the buds of Isabella have been nearly all killed to within two feet of the ground, especially those on the wood of last years' growth, and this wood also in many cases is destroyed.

The Diana vine has suffered to about the same extent as the Isabella, only the lower buds being alive.

The Rebecca was entirely destroyed within a foot of the ground, buds and wood. Hartford Prolific as bad as Rebecca; and now the rub of the story is, that the Delaware on the same trellis, and having the same exposure, has not suffered in the least. The wood is perfect to the very tip, and every bud is now bursting.

I offer this as another testimony in favor of this delicious grape, and with the other reports that have been made this Spring to the same effect, it can not be much longer doubted that this variety must soon supersede, for general cultivation, all others now in use in the extreme Northern States and Canada/'