It seems to me, Mr. Editor, that your city readers are entitled occasionally to a chance to say something in your columns, and to receive some of the attention so freely given to the more favored portion of the horticultural world.

The fact, that we have but a limited space in which to indulge our love of horticultural operations, should not, we think, preclude us entirely from receiving some notice.

I propose in this article to call the attention of such of your readers as live in cities and large towns, and possessing only a few feet of unpaved ground, to the fact, that the cultivation of the grape should be one of their important pleasures, and that it can be done by all or any one of them in ninety-nine out of every hundred yards in this great city of New York. Perhaps the strongest argument I could use in favor of grape-growing in city lots, would be to illustrate what had been done, instead of drawing conclusions from actual experience, and from them stating what can be done.

The lot that I reside on is twenty-five feet front, by one hundred in depth, sixty feet of which is covered by the house, leaving a yard 25 x 40 feet. Fifteen feet from the house, and running across the lot, is an old-fashioned grape arbor about twelve feet high, with a slanting top connecting it with the roof of the rear piazza.

Over this arbor, running almost wild I may say, are eight Isabella vines, now about twenty-five years old. For the first twenty years of their existence, no attention was given to them, except to prune them at intervals of three or four years, requiring perhaps about two or three hours' time. These vines from the first year they came into bearing have never failed to yield their fruit, and as a general thing, from sixty to one hundred pounds of grapes; and although this is but a fraction of what they might have yielded with proper care and cultivation, yet the result has been so gratifying that the inducement to part with them would have to be of a very extravagant character.

The neighbor adjoining has a yard sixteen feet eight inches wide by about forty feet long, with a similar arbor, and another one at the rear of the lot. His vines came into full bearing this year, and he has a very handsome show of grapes. I will venture to say, that his library, his pictures, or the numerous articles of taste which adorn his house, do not excite as much surprise and interest among his friends as these fine purple bunches of ripening grapes.

There are now two others beyond him, making four grape-growers together, all of whom can show the best reason in the world why every one in the city should grow grapes.

Within a year I have planted six vines of the new varieties, and intend soon to set out some Delawares to replace the old Isabellas. These new vines I propose to treat entirely on the Mead system, and I believe I can thus get several times the amount of fruit from the same space. Making a liberal provision for a bleaching ground, and reserving a space 16 x 20, on which some day I propose erecting a cold grapery to grow the foreign varities under glass, I find that 1 shall be able to produce at least two hundred pounds of out-door grapes.in a city lot. If any of your readers doubt my ability to do it, now is the time for them to step forth and prove the contrary. There is a good deal to be written on this-subject, and other and abler pens to do it; still I do not apprehend that I shall exhaust my part of it for some time to come. It ought to be followed up until all the appreciative part of this community know how to grow their own grapes.

[Very good indeed, Mr. One-who-does-it; we like your spirit. You and those you represent shall have all the attention you desire. City yards, on the whole, present many facilities for growing grapes to a high degree of excellence; and there are comparatively few of these where a small grapery might not be erected cheaply. We hope- the determination you here announce will be adopted by hundreds of others; you shall have such information as will place success beyond peradventure. You seem to have done something, but you can do very much more. Several good beginnings have already been made in New York, which we shall take pleasure in showing you and others. You can not do better than read our Grape articles, especially those on Soil, Exposure, etc. The treatment of grapes in city yards, as announced in the beginning of those articles, will be reached in due time; but we shall gladly turn aside to give you special attention. Let us hear from you again. - Ed].