Having had my attention turned into a horticultural channel for the past few years, particularly to that part of it called grape culture, I have been not a little interested in the perusal of those articles entitled "Hints on Grape Culture," as given forth in the Horticulturist. It is, I find, a demonstrated fact, that time works important changes in every department of science, whether mechanical, agricultural, or horticultural. And I doubt not but there are now many Fox Meadows in the horticultural world, that are diving deep, and examining well the superstructure and foundation upon which all their "future hopes" and success in grape culture are to rest. For myself I can say that I am only very young, and need all the collateral information that is stored up in the gamer of experience. Dear Friend Editor, provoke Fox Meadow to continue his " Views," and also give some of his brethren a "sly poke," reminding them of their duty, to set their lights on a hill, and not keep them under a bushel. However, I must say, notwithstanding my inexperience, that I have a grape border in which I planted twenty grape vines about seventeen months since, from which I have gathered a sufficiency of grapes to create an "earnest" for the realization of my most confident expectations.

The varieties that produced fruit in this border this season, are Concord, Hartford Prolific, and Diana. Several of my Concords have made an aggregate of over 30 feet of wood this season, being grown mostly with two canes. Hartford Prolines have grown equally well. One Diana vine has reached the height of 20 feet with one cane; between 12 and 15 feet with another; canes stout and vigorous. No fruit of the Delaware this season; one vine has made 30 feet of wood in two canes; they are both very stout, short jointed, and wiry. My border was prepared not at all after the specifications and details of Friend Olapod, but how I leave for the present, hoping to resume the subject at some future time. Febris VITIS.

Shrub Mount, 9th month, 11th, 1862.

P.S. - Please answer in the Horticulturist the following queries, and oblige thine truly. Viz.: 1st. Will there be any advantage in layering the vines above spoken of, say about 2 feet, putting 1 foot each year for two years? The border was constructed with a view of layering them. I do not know but Fox Meadow is going to turn my cart over. 2d. What are the characteristics of the Creveling, Bloom, or Catawissa grape, that recommend it? We are glad to hear that those "Hints" are to be continued.

[We are glad to hear from you. You seem to have made a very good beginning in grape culture, and your "earnest" will no doubt be crowned with abund-ant success. We should not advise you to prepare a border as suggested by Olapod. Fox Meadow's articles arc worthy of attention. They will be continued till the border is made. How much farther we can not say at present, but we hope and believe he will make his "Interior Views" full and complete. We should not layer the vines unless there was some real necessity for it. If you do, however, put down a foot at a time, and begin before the vines are another year old. The Creveling is recommended for its hardiness, earliness, and good bearing qualities. It is, moreover, a good grape. We should be sorry to drop the "Hints" now, except to our readers. We shall continue them to the end, with the hope that some may fall on good ground, and produce much fruit Let us hear from you again about grapes and other matters. - Ed.]

Peter B. Mead, Esq. - Dear Sir, - I wish to inquire if you know of a remedy for an evil, which, if it continues to increase as it has done for some years, will soon put an end to the culture of the grape in this place.

Last year I noticed a small fly (which has for several years destroyed the foliage on several kinds of ornamental shrubs in my garden) was attacking the leaves of my grape vines. It did but little injury, except to a "Clinton," which it stripped of its foliage, and in consequence the fruit did not ripen.

This year the same pest has appeared in myriads on the leaves of all my grape vines, and has destroyed the most of them to such an extent, that the fruit has ceased to grow, and the crop of course will be lost. I have examined the grape vines of some of my neighbors, and find that they are all suffering, in different degrees, from the same cause. The only kind of grape which is not seriously injured, with me, is the Concord. Although it is attacked in common with the others, its very thick tough leaf does not suffer much, and the crop has ripened well. Of the others, the Rebecca and Delaware are the most affected, the Catawba is next, and the Diana the least of all, but the Concord. The fly which is doing all this mischief is, I suppose, a species of "thrip." There are two kinds on the leaves, one of which, a small fly, less than a quarter of an inch in length, striped crosswise, with three dark and two white stripes, is no doubt the "thrip" of the graperies. This kind, however, is not very numerous. The other sort is smaller, of a greenish white, and is very quick in its movements, flying so briskly, that we hare to "look sharp" to see it, although when the vines are shaken they arise in great numbers.

I have occasionally had both kinds in my cold grapery, but we easily rid it of them by tobacco fumigations.

Many persons here have gone into the cultivation of the grape, and it is a great disappointment to us to be thwarted by so insignificant a cause, in a pursuit from which we have derived much satisfaction.

If you can prescribe a remedy for us, we will be much obliged. We hope, from your experience in grape culture, and knowledge of the subject in general, that you will be able at once to put us in the way of ridding ourselves of this pest. I fear, however, that it will be difficult to get rid of them. I have already exhausted all the usual means in unsuccessful attempts to drive the same fly off my celery plants, which they have annually destroyed, until I have abandoned the culture of the plant. I have never seen any account of them having attacked the foliage of the grape out of doors in any other place, and fear that there is no established mode of getting rid of them. I would suggest, that if you do not know of a sure remedy, you lay the subject before your contributors, through the medium of the Horticulturist.