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found much favor with builders of hothouses, more from a want of a thorough 

 knowledge of the proper manner of doing it, than anything else ; and I 

 have never employed a glazier in this country, to whom I have not had to 

 explain this method of setting glass, before they would commence with the 

 work. The method has some advantages over our common glazing, as you 

 state in your remarks ; but it has disadvantages also ; and when the rebates 

 are very irregular, as is often the case, in sashes made by machinery, and 

 especially on curvilinear houses, as generally constructed, the work is bad. 

 In fact, the method cannot be adopted, with any chance of making a good 

 job, unless the rebate be regular and well made. I have, the past year, 

 glazed over two hundred sashes, in this manner; and when the work is 

 properly executed, I consider it the best method of setting small sized glass. 

 But the system is neither new, nor American ; and I am surprised that 

 neither you, nor the Philadelphia Florist, knew this before. — Yours, truly, 

 R. B. Leuchars, Roxbury, Jan. 26, 1853. 



Mr. Gore's Treatise on the Grape, and the Editor's Remarks. — 

 I have been looking over your Magazine for February, to-day, and I must 

 confess to being struck with your review of " Mr. Gore's treatment of his 

 grapes." 



Theoretically I can perceive no unsoundness in it, or fault in hisj^ treat- 

 ment — save the topping the branch at all, until its fundio7is are performed — 

 for if the reasoning is good for an inch, it is equally good for the entire 

 length ; and yet, what seems so perfectly demonstrable and true in theory, 

 may not be sanctioned by experience. 



I know your own practice, and that of others, in your treatment, not only 

 of the foreign, but native varieties, is very different ; and I would like to 

 know whether you are acquainted with an instance where this has been 

 fully carried out, on either or both kinds, until its results were determined. 



I mean by this, the thorough and perfect pruning of your vine in the fall. 

 The summer management, to rubbing off all shoots not required for subse- 

 quent spurs or present year's fruit, and dis-budding from those retained for 

 fruit, all eyes you did not design to carry it, allowing the branch, together 

 with the one designed for the subsequent year's fruit, to progress the entire 

 length. 



The amount of organized matter or sap, elaborated by the leaves, on sucli 

 a length of cane and converted into food for fruit, by this operation, as is 

 supposed, must be vastly enhanced; and I am curious to know whether 

 what appears so reasonable and proper on paper, is in the grapehouse and 

 in practice an absurdity. — Truly yours, Charles D. Palmer, Watervilte, 

 .V. y., Feb., 1853. 



The remarks of our correspondent are pertinent, but can be readily an- 

 swered. Custom has so wedded cultivators to one system, that it is hard to 

 get out of the old track. We know that it is the practice to cut the grape 

 to two eyes, or even one, beyond the buds, under artificial culture. Now 

 this is done for two reasons : one to prevent too much shade, and the other, 

 because it is supposed all the sap is directed to the bunch of fruit. Now 



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