At one time an effort was made to produce the impression that the Delaware is a poor feeble grower; but it is now so generally distributed, that the impression, wherever made, must give way to facts. Mr. Kennedy, a well-known horticulturist of Louisville, Ky., gives us the following interesting particulars in his own experience; and they agree not only with our own experience, but with all that we have seen of the Delaware when under good treatment We will remember your particular case, Mr. Kennedy, when we come to the third year's treatment. The following is the extract:

"The Delaware vine with me, after taking two years to get well-established, grows most vigorously. It throws out so many shoots, laterals, suckers, and branches, that I find it absolutely necessary to thin out two thirds of the present season's growth in order to prevent the vines from becoming one solid mass of inextricable confusion. The joints are so short that every two or three inches develops a bud, which throws out two fruit-bearing shoots besides the sucker. These shoots thus grow so close together that they soon get tangled up and matted into an unmanageable mass. To remedy this, I first cleared off all the suckers, then all double shoots were reduced to single ones, and finally I have been compelled to cut off every other one of these fruit-bearing shoots before sufficient room could be found for the healthy growth of the remaining shoots. The vines had previously been trained and pruned just as you have recommended in the admirable articles you are now publishing in the Horticulturist; that is, this spring I had one or two stout canes from each root cut back to five or six feet from the ground. The wood was near half an inch in diameter after two years' growth, and as hard as iron.

Although I have thinned out this season's growth so severely, yet I am still disposed to think I have left too many branches. Out of some sixty kinds of vines which I am cultivating, the Delaware vine bothers me, in its management, more than any other, except the "Ohio Cigar Box." The latter vine grows as rampant as Miller's spurious Emily, but I can't bring it to bear fruit. The Delaware, on the other hand, throws out so many fruit-bearing branches that I do not know how to keep it in bounds. When you come to the treatment of the three-year-old vine, please take my vines under consideration, and tell me how to regulate them".