The August number of the Horticulturist, contains a "reply" to what is termed my " strictures." On what? Very much to my surprise, and certainly to my regret, the few remarks made by roe in the June number, in relation to my Seedling Grape, and Mr. Choexton's comments thereon, appear to have given that gentleman a deal of offence. "A corner in your valuable journal is requested to answer my caustic remarks," and if I am to judge the measure of their causticity by the pungency of the:t reply," they must have been pretty highly seasoned with "invective, braggadocio, and sarcastic pique against a trifling misplaced etiquette".

Now all this puts me in mind of an old saying, that a tempest is easily raised in a teapot.' Re ferring to pages 290 and 291 of Horticultural for June, your readers will please note the article that has proved so exciting to Mr. Chorlton. I had communicated to the late deeply lamented editor, the fact of my having raised several seedling grapes, a cross between the Black Hamburgh and the Isabella, and had sent him a bunch of the fruit. His judgment was flattering, and I think would have been more so, if I had been able to send him a perfect bunch.

* Burr's New Pine is an American Strawberry of first rate character - our correspondent does not overrate it. Very fine, very productive, very early. ED.

Mr. Chorlton notices my communication in the Horticultural for November, and thought that " too much praise" could not bo given to me for my "enterprising experiment," but he thought I had " gone the wrong way to work." My reply was, that " physiological theory teaches" well, but practical experience better, - the proof of hardiness in my grape being the past severe winter. I spoke of my seedlings as I thought they deserved, although I hail '-gone the wrong way to work-" Without a thought of, or reference to Mr. Chorlton, I felt the necessity of stating my abhorrence of humbugs and cheats, and left " my grape to the ordeal of its own merits, and the test of time." In all this, where are the " caustic remarks," the "invective, braggadocio,, and sarcastic pique" with which I am charged? It is a libel on the truth to say so, and still a greater libel to misunderstand and then misrepresent what I have said. It is a perfect piece of folly to write about "good feeling," when " comments" are made of a character directly contradictory of the assertion.

Where, in my "estimation," do I assert, that " acting in accordance with the inscrutable and immutable laws of the all wise designer of the universe," would be "catering a la Bar num.?" It is something worse than a " delusion".to insinuate the charge; it is a positive untruth to assert it. No man more thoroughly detests the "follies and cheats" of horticulture than I do, and it was because of this, that I desired to " establish the reputation of my grape on some better evidence than the usual form of horticultural charlatanry." I wished to put my grape to the proof, and when proved, then to claim my just due for doing something to improve a valuable and delicious fruit. Those " who know" are welcome to indulge in the largest scepticism " upon the experiment." It is an indulgence that will injure no one, but when it comes to " comment" and misrepresentations, the pure offspring of a perverse imagination, I object decidedly, and would remind the gentleman to whom I am alluding, that bearing false witness against his neighbor, is in violation of a command of the decalogue.

It has been hitherto thought a " desideratum" to procure a native grape as hardy as the Isabella, yet bearing fruit equal to the foreign varieties. But this is not the desideratum after all. It is a very desirable point to be sure, yet it is a " trifling matter" compared with the " constitutional power to resist mildew during the growing season." So says Mr. Chorlton, therefore the desideratum is, a constitutional power to resist mildew during the growing tea* ton. The foreign grapevine is hardy enough, and stands unprotected without injury in situations north of this, (Staten Island,) but we want the constitutional power, etc., and must get it as soon as we can.

My assertions, whether few or many, have amounted to the declaration of the fact, that my vines are as hardy as the Isabella, and. that I hold them to be superior toevery other grape grown in the open air in any part of the United States. I shall endeavor to prove my assertions by the test of time, and shall .cheerfully await the verdict.

Having no vines to sell, and not intending to dispose of a single plant until that verdict is rendered, I can excuse the doubts, surmises, and scepticism of Mr. Chorlton, " and those who know." To the just and impartial reader, I leave the decision of the question - is my communication of May 6th, in June Horticultural, or Mr* Chorlton's of July 15th, in August Horticultural, the most open to censure, for their " caustic remarks," and "sarcastic pique." "Jeffreys" has got something to say, and I am anxious to hear him say it. W. W. Valk, M. D. Flushing. L.I., Aug. 10, 1852.