The Muscat of Alexandria is considered by many of the most successful English grape growers as the best variety in cultivation. What say our growers? The Black Barbarossa is a new variety spoken of very highly in England.

The Grape #1

The Isabella, recommended as one of the best, if not the best, for extensive cultivation in the northwest The Catawba was voted superior in all localities where it would ripen. The Clinton not sufficiently known for recommendation.

Grapes #2

According to my experience, the most productive way of growing the American Grape is to let it climb into a tree.* In April, 1839, I planted out some Isabellas, from cuttings of the previous spring, on the south side of a close board fence, and allowed them to run wild for an experiment, into some Peach trees on the other or north side of the fence. From that period to the present they have never been touched by a knife, for I liked to see them riot in their native luxuriance. They annually bear in immense profusion; so enormously, indeed, that it must be witnessed to be credited. They have, however, nearly destroyed their supporters, which, ot course, I could not prune on account of the Grapes; but the latter hide the long, naked branches of the Peaches consequent upon the desuetude of the pruning-knife. C. E. - Sandwich, C W.

Grapes #3

I send by Express a cluster of Grapes called the Canadian Chief, grown in this city, on a vine three years old, supposed to have come from Virginia. It has borne from fifty to sixty pounds this year, with hardly any care or cultivation. You will notice that they are hardly ripe; but all grapes in this section of the country are later this year. I think it is some thing new, as it stands the winter as well as the Isabella or Clinton, and far better than the Sweettoater. It beats every thing with up, but perhaps it is common with you. If you deem it worthy of notice please give your remarks in the pages of your journal F. W. Fearman. - Hamilton, C. W.

A very large and beautiful bunch of Grapes. A foreign variety beyond doubt, resembling the Sweet Water, but more compact, and larger and finer than we have ever seen that variety grown in the open air in this country. We would like to know more of its hardiness - how exposed - and whether it has borne there more than one season.