Much interest was excited at the late annual meeting of our State Horticultural Society, by reports of recent experiments with the use of sulphur on Catawba vineyards at the islands. It was stated by one of the grape-growers from there, that sulphuring the vines had been practiced to some extent for several years past, and that when judiciously done, it was found a certain preventive of mildew and rotting of the fruit, and also of the blighting of the foliage; and where this was practiced, in 1872, the vines ripened their wood so well as to suffer but little damage from the winter, and thus produced a half crop, while vineyards not sulphured bore no fruit at all. These facts will cause a very general use of sulphur hereafter, and much improvement is expected therefrom.

The practice is, to mix the sulphur with an equal quantity of fine air - slacked lime, and apply the powder with bellows, of which they manufacture a very cheap style for the purpose. The first application is made as soon as the blossoms are off, in June, and repeat once a month or so during the summer. The labor and expense are quite small compared with the benefits; and the practice is recommended to grape-growers generally, especially for varieties that are subject to mildew or blighting of the foliage. Let us all give the experiment a trial, and report the results next year.

Painesville, O.