What degree of cold Grape vines can endure without injury, is an interesting question to cultivators in an inclement climate. Where I am located, we may expect the thermometer to sink to 20° below zero, Farenheit, every winter, though there may be exceptions. On the 16th December, 1685, I saw it at - 87° (the night of the great fire in New York), at 2 o'clock A. M.

My house is span roofed, glass all around to within eight inches of the ground. This past winter, thinking to provide against any extremity of cold, had the vines covered with tan-bark and saw-dust. The result has proved that it was a most injudicious method. The buds on the length of cane of last season's growth were injured very materially, so much so that several of the vines we have cut down to the first healthy shoot below the dead buds.* The wood was well ripened. The injury was probably owing to the moisture in the covering freezing, and in mild weather keeping the buds too moist.

The name of the unproductive vine I wrote you of was Prince Albert, pruned on the spur system, and has been well managed.

Uncovered vines the 28th March,+ and this day we commence thinning the berries in the bunches. M. - Oneida Co., N. Y.