I beg leave to call the attention of the horticultural community to a very important article published in the Gardener's Chronicle, England, Nov. 24th, on the best means of restoring the vigor of old canes in the vinery, which, after having been for five or six years strong and prolific, have gradually lost their fruiting capacity, and become weak and worthless. The article referred to is published under the horticultural head, and is probably from the pen of Dr. Lindley, as it is published as editorial with his sanction. That many old canes of fine size and appearance, when worked on the spur system, do become weak and worthless in a few years, and cease to increase in size, is well known. What is the cause?

Dr. Lindley says the cause of the decline of these old canes is to be found in the fact, that having reached the top of the house, and being consequently checked in their growth for several years, they have no longer sufficient foliage to elaborate the sap necessary to cover the immense old rod and roots with a layer of new wood annually, as they should do, and at the same time to carry off a crop of grapes. Hence weak shoots on the spurs, and small bunches of badly ripened fruit, are the inevitable results.

What is the remedy? Dr. Lindley says, simply cut down the old vines as close to the border as it can properly be done, and grow up a new cane.

Permit me, Mr. Editor, to stick a pin there, and ask particular attention to this new and remarkable step in grape culture, and to the sound vegetable physiology upon which it is based. I have not the article at hand, and will not attempt to state the reasoning of Dr. Lindley. I think the whole article should be published in the Horticulturist. I only wish now to say that the new practice advocated by Dr. Lindley brings the whole management of grape vines right down to my Renewal System, and shows conclusively that my system is one which is sustained by the highest scientific opinion in the world.

Dr. Lindley says, cut down your old vines as soon as they decline in vigor and fruiting capacity, and grow a new cane from the base of the old stem. My system proposes to cut the vines down after every fruiting season, before they are exhausted, and grow a new rod for the next season. I do not doubt that you may work the vines on the spur system for two or three years, gradually increasing the length of the cane each year, till you reach to the top of the rafter, without serious injury to them; but I think it will be found better practice to grow wood one year and fruit the next, and to cut the vines down every other year, rather than to cripple them by the usual method of management.

Now let me ask, if you may cut down vines, six to ten years old, not only without danger, but with positive benefit, why may we not cut down vines every other year, as I have proposed, with equal safety?

I feel quite sure that I am right in my renewal system, and I shall stick to it, with a perseverance as constant and resistless as "the tug of gravitation," till somebody can prove by facts and good scientific argument that I am wrong.

[ We had noticed the article referred to, and will hereafter give its main points, with remarks of our own. We are too much in a" heap" from our late burning to do so now. - Ed].