Mr. Tucker - In the Horticulturist of February last, I gave an account of the cold grapery at this place, in which was stated that there was ripened 262 bunches on 74 vines, the season after planting. In the March number, Mr. Cleveland, of Burlington, in a very sensibly written article, thought that the vines would be injured by such early cropping, and requested information respecting their progress this season, which I now with pleasure respond to. It was then stated that I expected to ripen 600 to 700 bunches this present season. The number ripened is 618. The vines showed altogether, over 2,400, many of the shoots from a single eye, throwing out four bunches, which were uniformly reduced to one, and at thinning time these further reduced so as to leave from seven to twelve on a vine, according to supposed weight of bunch and strength of plant, so that the energy might be equipoised. The result has answered my expectations. The growth has been quite as vigorous as can be wished for; the side spurs, from bottom to top, are uniformity strong; the wood is now quite brown and hard, with prominent well rounded buds for next year.

If proof of quality is required, it is answered by the fact of my having obtained the first premium at the last exhibition of the New York Horticultural Society, for the best 8 varieties, the weight respectively of which was as follows: Syrian, 2 lb. 14 oz.; Xeres, 2 lb. 3 oz.; Victoria, 2 lb. 1 oz.; Black Hamburgh, 3 lb. 1 1/2 oz.; Deacon's Superb, 1 lb. 4 oz.; Black Prince, 1 lb. 13 oz.; Reine de Nice. 2 lb. 9 oz.; Austrian Muscat, I lb. 1 oz. There are now in the house many equally fine and well colored.

For the satisfaction of your correspondent, H. B., I may state, that the first grapes were cut well ripened on the 11th August, viz: Malvasia, a beautiful little grape which ought to be in every collection, and Muscat Blanc Hatif, one of the best flavored grapes in cultivation, but liable to crack when swelling to ripen. No heating apparatus of any kind, has been used, and taking into consideration the late spring and cold summer, this will be equivalent to the 2nd August of last year, I am obliged to Mr.Messer, in the September number, for his friendly hints, respecting what he thinks should have been substituted, in composing of the borders, different to what was used, but would say that he fails to convince me that he is right. He says, " it is in vain to expect a similar growth the following season, or this present season, with ordinary rates of manuring," adding, "if one-half the quantity of bone dust and stable manure had been used, and a suitable lot of whole bones or cattle's feet, or slaughter house offal, had been added, the fertility of the border would have been more permanent at less cost." To the first assertion, I answer, that last season the canes were quite as strong as the first year's growth, and this season there is no more difference than is more than made up by the strong side shoots; the top growth would have been equally strong, (and in many cases is quite so,) but for the very reason that the heads were kept down longer on purpose to force the developement laterally, which is a point not often sufficiently attended to with young vines; some of the wood of the present season is three-fourths of an inch in diameter, which is surely strong enough for vines in full bearing.

Of this be may have ocular demonstration, now the canes are swollen up. The bones used were mostly about one-half inch in diameter, and of the size they can be evenly distributed through every part; and as bones give out very slowly, there is no fear of permanent benefit as far as they are concerned. As to slaughter house offal, it has a tendency, under some circumstances, to produce an enormous growth for a short time, but as to its permanent qualities, many cases might be brought forward to show that precisely opposite effects are produced by i£. I am convinced from experience, that as fine and well flavored grapes can be grown without, as with this stinking offal, which Roberts, more poetically and ridiculously, calls " the pabulum which is to supply the nectar of Bacchus." Even allowing it to be more permanent, a border in which it has been used in any thing like a fresh state, (and this is the way in which it is generally applied,) will in a short time become a sodden mass, and more fit to puddle the sides of a duck pond, to hold in the water, than a base for the succulent and tender rootlets of the grape vine to luxuriate in. If used at all, it should be thoroughly decomposed, and blended with other compost before being applied.

As fine grapes were grown before these substances came into fashion, and as fine will continue to be grown when they are numbered with the things that were.

As to the second assertion, viz: less cost, I do not see how slaughter house offal is to be collected and conveyed a distance of seven or eight miles at a less cost than stable manure, which is always readily and cheaply obtained near large cities, and the difference in the bones is so trifling as not to be worth calculating, where a thing is intended to be done right.

Your correspondent also seems to think, that I shall not be able to keep the wood " at home," by the method on which the vines are pruned. I can assure him that it is just as easy to do so as by cutting back so close, with the advantage of retaining more plump and well swelled eyes, thereby ensuring larger and better shouldered bunches. As he does not seem to have a right idea of it, I will explain.

In pruning in the fall, after the first year's growth, each alternate eye is disbudded of each side of the cane, leaving those wanted for breaking next season, about 15 inches apart. The next season, when pruning for spurs, the side shoots are cut back to three eyes, or even four, according as the lower buds may be plump and well rounded. In breaking, each bud puts forth a shoot; the most promising one nearest to the top, and the one at the base, are allowed to remain, and the other is rubbed out. The top one is allowed to bear, and the fruit on the bottom is pinched out. The fruit bearing spur is stopped three or four joints above the fruit, and the other one next to the base is also stopped, when it has grown seven or eight leaves. They are now trained per diagram, a is the bearing shoot, and 6 the one not to be fruited till next year; at next pruning, (or what is still better, two or three weeks previous,) a is cut clean out to the base of b, and when the leaves fall b is cut back to three eyes, as a was last season, and so on from year to year. As your correspondent, Mr. Messer, truly says, " nature will out," their will never be any lack of eyes close to the main cane if the above is rightly performed.

Notwithstanding the readiness with which the grape-vine pushes fresh shoots when so closely pruned, there are some of the larger and gross growing kinds, that fruit shyly, or produce nothing but small bunches by such treatment - and this is one reason why some fine sorts get a bad character. Wm. Chorlton, gardener to J. G. Green, Esq.

New.Brighton, Staten-Island, Oct. 10,1852