If one of the posts, poles or sapplings decays, it is easily replaced.

With regard to gathering the fruit, the Scuppernong is accommodating. The crop ripens over a period of several weeks, and is easily detached from the bunch when ripe; to gather the crop, all that is necessary is to spread a large piece of canvass or muslin on the ground, and shake the vines. By this arrangement two laborers can collect a large quantity of fruit in a day.

There being so few obstructions, the ground beneath the trellis can be kept clear of weeds, by the use of the cultivator or harrow, at a trifling expense. When the arbor becomes covered with vines, weeds have but a slight chance for growth.

It is customary to plant Scuppernong vines about thirty feet apart, but if we were planting a vineyard of this variety, we should plant the vines ten or fifteen feet apart,and thereby secure a full crop at an early day. As the vines increased in size and encroached upon each other, we would sacrifice the intermediate ones.

In our opinion, the Scuppernong offers a fine field for the hybridist. It presents to the experimenter a vigorous habit, great longevity and an apparent immunity from disease. If hybridized by some of the first class wine growers of the continent (as the Scyras, Hiesling, or Pinedas), the resulting seedling would probably furnish us with wine producing grapes of a superior order.

The color of the Scuppernong prevents the possibility of producing high-colored wines; but this could be overcome by the cultivation of the Linta grape, the fruit of which is used to color some of the continental wines. I am prepared to admit that the must of the Scuppernong, like most of our native grapes, contains an excess of acid, which can be disposed of in a simple manner, without the necessity of adding water or making the wine sticky with sugar. The process to effect this object I described in the columns of The Horticulturist some years since.

It will be urged as an objection to vine growing in Florida, that there are no experienced persons to purchase the fruit from the small growers, as in France. In Australia, superior wines are produced by vineyardists, without the assistance of the large manufacturer, and I see no reason why American enterprise cannot accomplish the same end. If the large operator is necessary, he will be found, if a sufficient inducement is offered in any particular locality. We will not pretend that, for many years to come, that the product of Florida would equal the wines of the Rhine, Rhone, Loire or Garonne, or entirely supersede the produce of Oporto, Xerxes, Sicily or Madeira, but the State is capable of furnishing an excellent beverage for those who cannot afford to pay for such expensive vintages; and who will not be dissatisfied to exchange so-called French brandy, rum, or Jersey lightning, for the less injurious or more palatable products of the Scuppernong.

Some of your readers will ask why it is that the grape has not been more extensively cultivated and tested in Florida. It is a historical fact that, in West Florida, the French government ordered a suppression of the vineyards, lest their success might injure those of France; and, according to Vignolles, similar restrictions as to the olive, and perhaps the grape, were imposed by the Spaniards over the Florida colonies. Although these decrees are ancient and have perhaps long become dead letters, yet they must have prevented the spirit of enterprise that in the first instance suggested such establishments, which once quenched, was not easily revived.

After Florida became a portion of the United States, it was settled by persons from the southern States, who were unacquainted with grapes or their culture. They had been accustomed to the culture of cotton, corn and tobacco, and continued in the old rut after settling in Florida. Since the war, the want of funds has prevented residents from experimenting in vine culture to any great extent.

In conclusion, we may remark, that we would not advise' anyone to engage in vine-growing east of the eighty-first parallel. It is probable that the grape would prove successful at Clear Water Harbor, Manatee and Tampa, but of this we have no positive evidence. That it will prove a successful and remunerative.crop on the high lands of central Florida, we are convinced from actual observation and reliable data.