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command of this element in all successful gardening, we have 

 only to recommend the best modes or most labor-saving means 

 of distributing it. The Garden Engine was one. We now 

 present an engraving, (fig. 20,) of a garden, greenhouse, or 

 conservatory pump, to be placed in the most accessible situa- 

 tion in the former, and in the back sheds of the latter, or even 

 in the interior of the houses, when their construction is such 

 as will admit of its being put up under the stage, where the 



cistern is built in the centre 

 of the house. In cold gra- 

 peries, where appearance is 

 not of so much importance, 

 it may be placed in the mid- 

 dle of the house, over the 

 cistern, from whence water 

 may be thrown to any part 

 of it, unless more than 

 one hundred and fifty feet 

 long, thus dispensing with 

 both the garden engine and 

 the syringe in the grapery, 

 saving a vast amount of la- 

 bor, and thoroughly doing 

 the work so often only half 

 performed by hand. For 

 greenhouses and conserva- 

 tories it is indispensable, 

 wherever neatness and clean 

 and healthy plants are an 

 object. It is a foe to all 

 mealy bugs, red spiders and other insects so troublesome to 

 the gardener. The manufacturers are Messrs. Cowing &- Co. 

 of Seneca Falls, N. Y., and they thus speak of this pump : — 

 " The engraving represents a single acting force pump, of 

 great power ; and will, with the power of one man, throw 

 water fifty feet perpendicularly, or seventy-five feet horizon- 

 tally. We have full confidence in the performance of this 

 pump, and defy competition. We have had it tested with 



20. THE GARDEN PUMP, 



