It may perhaps be gratifying to some of your readers engaged in grape culture, to have a few words more at the close of the season. The vines in my house did well, and the fruit was in good condition, until about the first of September. The Royal Muscadine were perfectly ripe, and as well flavored as the same variety can be expected to be, under any circumstances. Other varieties were not quite matured. But the rains had fallen quite copiously for several weeks, at short intervals. The border outside was becoming thoroughly soaked; and a few cold and cloudy days sadly arrested the ripening process. If, from this time, two-thirds of the falling rain could have been carried off without penetrating the earth, the fruit would have continued to improve. But for the want of this precaution, unnecessary in common seasons, it was deficient in color and flavor. I think I have never witnessed such an excess of moisture at this season of the year. From the 15th of September to the 1st of November, the soil has not been sufficiently dry to allow us comfortably to dress out our strawberry beds.

My grapery is designed to be a cold house; but, on account of the proximity of forest trees, and other obstructions, it does not obtain a fair proportion of light and heat from the sun. To compensate for this deficiency, I made some use of artificial heat in April and May. As a general thing, in good exposures, I hold to the " cold grapery," in the best sense of the term. If we leave it all to Nature, after furnishing a good, close house, made after approved models, we are in the way to have the best of fruit, in common seasons. But my grape season ended about the middle of September; and if there had been no forcing in the spring, the Hamburghs, Muscats, and Frontignans would have been worthless. I observed that of the Purple Fron-tignan, in the vinery of Mr. H. S., in this village, many clusters decayed prematurely, by excess of wet, and cool, cloudy weather; and he enjoys a full exposure to the sun. Let those who are constructing, or are about to construct, a grape border for growing foreign varieties under glass, observe two rules : Let them be sure to provide a good and sufficient drainage, in the first place; and secondly, use a light vegetable mold for a considerable part of the compost.

It has been a question with some who are supposed to be learned on the subject, whether the Cannon Hall is better than, or essentially different from, the White Muscat of Alexandria, of which it claims to be a seedling. Of the former, what can be known from one bunch, grown on a young vine, is, or rather has been, before us. The berries were about the same size as the largest Muscat - a little more oblong - a little more yellow in color - and the flavor equal. Our fruit committee at the county fair can speak on that subject, for they saw and tasted; but their report contains nothing to indicate that a single foreign grape grown under glass was exhibited on the occasion - and yet there were there collections of several varieties, from three different graperies, which for beauty, size, and maturity, would compare favorably with any other similar show in this part of the country. The Cannon Hall also with me ripened about a week in advance of the parent, the Muscat of Alexandria.

Among other marks to show that this elegant branch of horticulture is moving onward, I am happy to say that my friend and neighbor, J. 8. King, has become so much infected with the grape mania that he has just erected a beautiful vinery, which makes the fourth in this village. It is a span roof, which is also arched, and is built after the model of the Clinton Point vinery, an engraving of which is to be found in the Horticulturist, Vol. IV. The dimensions are: 30 feet long, 18 feet wide, and 14 feet high - which, with border, cost about four hundred dollars. A few days ago a gentleman from Syracuse, with a carpenter, came and examined it, and resolved to build one on the same plan. He was "waked up" to it by rather casually dropping in at Parsons &Co.'s establishment, at Flushing. I advised him to subscribe for the Horticulturist at once, which (strangely to say) he had not done.

By the way, myself and others are highly gratified with the "Facts in Native Grape Culture," as given by your correspondent in Naples. "The vine is a gross feeder." Let us have all the facts.