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it will prove a valuable market fruit: it is very vigor- 
ous and hardy; fruit large and handsome, and keeps 
well. We have seen it exhibited for forty-eight hours, 
after twenty miles’ land carriage, when it remained the 
brightest and most showy fruit of forty choice varieties. 
The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society in 1853 pro- 
nounced it ‘ extraordinarily productive,” and quality 
“good.” It is pistillate, and its only fault, as far as we 
are aware, is the lack of high flavor, which we do not 
consider indispensable for a market fruit. 
MOYAMENSING PINE. 
It bore off the premium offered by the Pennsylvania 
Horticultural Society in 1848, for the best seedling 
strawberry exhibited that year, and is described as 
follows: ‘‘ Fruit rather large; roundish conical; deep 
crimson; seeds crimson, set in rather deep depressions, 
with rounded intervals; flesh red; flavor very fine; 
quality ‘best;’ pistillate leaf; large, with crenate ser- 
ratures.” We should not place the quality as high as 
“best,” although it is good. In New Jersey and 
Pennsylvania it has the best reputation as a fine mar- 
ket fruit, and our experience confirms it. In fact, we 
are inclined to think that this variety and McAvoy’s 
Extra Red may prove our best market kinds, and, as 
such, a great acquisition. That point, however, is not 
yet established. 
