editor's table. 



Answkiis ToCimuKsro.NnENTS. — Greenhouses have been mucli the Huhjectof former volunn'S 

 of the llorticulliirist. In vol. 5, pages 110 and 184, as well as elscwlicre, our correspondent 

 will find niueh information. It is a subject of great interest, and particularly the jioint lie 

 alludes to, that of cheap structures for tlie many. Eight and ten dollars a running foot, is 

 about the lowest price for anything ornamental, but, for three dollars a foot, a house that 

 will answer to protect and grow ilowers, vuiii be built. The tojjic shall bo discussed hereafter. 

 At present, we are overwheln»ed witli matter waiting admission. 



(A. (t. H., Wisconsin,) will (ind a description of a "pit" for keeping and blooming winter 

 flowers in our last number. A more simple one also answers well for keeping plants ; sink 

 a jiit, of any size you want, below the ground entirely, and line it with brick, stone, or 

 planks; treat it just as you do a hotbed, omitting the manure at bottom. Such is the 

 one you incjuire about. Nothing could be more simi)lo ; but be sure it has a dry bottom. 



(Wm. H. Rkad, Canada West.) John Fiske Allen, of Salem, Mass., authority on tbe sub- 

 ject, says : " See llovey's M<t<jazine for Jan. 185r>, page 44, for his article on Hybridizing the 

 (irape ; turn also to his book on the drape, pages 149, 150, 151, 3d edition, and you will liml a 

 plan to save the pollen for impregnation — the only practical one, I think ; the ])olU!n, if ki-pt 

 in tin or glass, from the air, and in a dry place, will keep good a year." Mr. Allen is about to 

 introduce to the public some of the results of his praiseworthy efforts, but sufficient plants 

 have not yet been grown to offer them the present spring. 



(Hexky Sueldox.) The Golden Hamburgh Grape is quite new in England, and is sold at 

 a high price. It has not been received in this country yet. 



(A. J. Caywood, Modeua.) We have no connection, and never had, with any commercial 

 nursery. 



(C.) Consult "Parsons on the Rose," and use good manure, plenty of sun, and keeji the 

 roots in a soil that will not retain water too long. 



(J. D. Ing Eiisoi.i-, Ilion.) We are not aware of any gardener who possesses the seedling 

 grapes you name. 



(J. Powell, Dayton, Ohio.) Your kind notice came too late, and is now out of season. 



A Constant Readek and Subsceibek, Baltimore, will find the information he wants in the 

 Encyclopedias. 



Carlisle, Ky. — Bear Sir : I received your Horticulturist, and I am so highly pleased with 

 its contents, beauty, and value, that I feel disposed to exert my influence in its favor. 

 This locality is proverbially the most fertile and wealthy in Kentucky, and particularly 

 adapted to the cultivation of fruit. No place can be found where the apple, grape, and 

 ])cach, grow more luxuriantly than in this State, or where the fruit is produced more perfect. 

 We frcijuently escape the late spring frosts ; when further north, they are very destructive 

 to the early blooming kinds. The peach here attains its largest size and highest flavor, but, 

 owing to its vigorous growth, the tree is not long lived. With all the natural advantages 

 possessed by tlie owners of the soil for the protitable culture of fruit, comparatively little 

 attention is paid to it ; they are suffering from neglect ; in this they could greatly add to 

 their yearly proiits, to themselves, families, and neighbors. Our farmers are intelligent and 

 enteiiirising, and ready to embark in anything that will pay. It must be that they are 

 uninformed upon the subject of the proiits and importance of fruit culture, and the sujierior 

 excellence of the new articles in comparison with the old familiar kinds. It is the want of 

 information on the subject, I am assured, from the following circumstance : Last fall, I men- 

 tioned to a few friends that I had some trees sent to me for sale. I soon had orders amount- 

 ing to over 400, and I have orders for spiing for more than 1,000, and, I think, the circulation 

 of your interesting and valuable work will much increase this year. William Duxn. 



Waste Steam. — Mr. Editor : I was very glad to see your notice, in a late number, 

 respecting waste steam. How many steam-engines we have in Philadelphia (some estimate 

 them as high as six hundred, within the limits of the pavements), which are continually 

 throwing away, into the air, an amount of heat and moisture sufficient to supply luxuries to 

 the whole population. By depositing this heat in beds of stone, &(\, for night warmth, every 

 owner of a steam engine might grow his own grapes, pine-apples, &c. Even suj^pose he had 

 his grapery in the garret of his factory ! A few windows in the roof, easily constructed, 

 would give sun and light, and the steam, under control of a valve, could be injected with 

 perfect ease, without costing an additional copper. It might, too, be led by small, in 

 sive pipes, to considerable distances, instead of being jetted out into the blue vault 



