92 Answers to Correspotidents. 



[Want of room compels us to omit the premiums offered for 1847 till our 

 next number.] 



Exhibited. — Fruit : From the President of the Society, Nonsuch apples 

 and fine Easter Beurr6 pears ; also a variety of apples received from various 

 sources, among which were the yEsopus Spitzemberg (very fine,) Winter 

 Pennock (poor,) Fall Harvey, in good preservation, but flavor indifferent. 

 Messrs. Hovey & Co. exhibited Baldwin apples, and Bergamotte de Par- 

 thenay pears; also handsome Northern Spy apples received from J. H- 

 Watts, Esq., Rochester, New York, which the committee pronounced very 

 fine. 



Art. ni. Answers to Correspondents. 



We now resume our answers to correspondents, and shall endeavor here- 

 after not to allow so long a space to occur again. 



PoLMAisE Heating. — T. C. — We intend to give a full account of this 

 method of heating as soon as we can find room : a great deal has been said 

 in its praise in the English papers, and from a small apparatus which we have 

 erected in one of our houses on the plan, we think much more favorably of 

 it than formerly. A few years ago we tried to heat a small house, with a 

 furnace, in the same way that dwellings are warmed ; but the furnace was 

 not of sufficient power, or properly constructed, and we erected a common 

 furnace with flues, in its place. Since the principles of Polmaise have been 

 so ably elucidated, we have pulled down the old one, and erected another, 

 combining that system with the common flue, and we find it to work so well, 

 that we should recommend it to the attention of amateurs for further trial. 

 We shall offer some facts which we think will show its economy over flues 

 or hot water. 



AcHiMENES PiCTA. — Au Amateur. — This most beautiful species first flow- 

 ered here in our collection in the Summer of 1845, andsubsequently found 

 its way into many choice collections of plants ; it is the most brilliant of the 

 tribe, and is as easily cultivated as either of the other species. The little 

 corms or tubers should now be potted in a soil of leaf mould and peat, with 

 little sand, and placed in a hotbed or very warm place in the greenhouse, 

 where they will soon begin to grow. When they have made four or five 

 leaves, they may be potted off singly into small pots, or in shallow pans, 

 eight inches broad, five or seven plants in each ; in this way, they flourish 

 well, and make a splendid show ; give a good drainage. We shall endeav- 

 or to offer an article on this tribe soon. 



Scarlet Pelargoniums. — X. — Many of the new kinds are a great im- 

 provement upon the old ones ; the following comprise six new and choice va- 

 rieties : King, Ingram's Dwarf, Mallason's No. 1, Mallason's No. 2, Nimrod 

 and Huntsman. They are all profuse flowerers, and of dwarf habit. 



Japan Lilies. — I. W. J. — We shall endeavor to comply with your wish- 

 es, and should probably have done so before, had we not misplaced a draw- 



