Our readers are doubtless all cognizant of the offer made by the Long-worth Wine House at Cincinnati - 1st, for the best general wine grape of our whole country; 2d, for the best wine grape for the State of Ohio; and 3d, for the best table grape for general purposes in the country, and that men of prominence were by them named to serve as the committee of award.

This circular has been freely published by nearly every agricultural paper in the States, in the simple innocence of their thoughts that it was a liberal item, and deserved commendation. Even our worthy and valued co-operative at Boston gave it favor to the extent of illustrating their premium silver ware. Now, while we favor every advancement of horticultural intelligence, and are ever ready to lend a hand, regardless of cost, to that object which, in its ultimate even, shall serve to advance horticultural progress, we confess our reluctance to say a word of favor to this item. "We freely acknowledge we look upon it as chimerical, and like the Greeley prizes, may have originated in a good and benevolent disposition; but its results, like that, will be mere smoke, requiring the awarding committee to either rely upon their former laurels in silence, or else to sustain a discussion which can but result in discomfiture. Without presuming that the Longworth wine house estimated that they would make more than treble the cost of their offer by the gain in publicity, which could not be obtained by paying for advertisements, we can not for a moment believe that the good sense and discriminating knowledge of some members of that house ever for a moment believed there was yet known a single variety of grape to merit any one of their premiums offered.

We are certainlv verv much in-terested - at least to the number of 10,000 of our readers - in this matter, and shall most cordially hail the hour when it shall be declared, with any possible chance of being sustained, that there is one superior grape for wine adapted to our whole country - one for all the soils and climates of Ohio, and a table grape for all the land, without regard to soil or climate. After this expose, it will be useless to bring forward new seedlings.