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the best pumps in the Union, being snccessful in every trial, 

 and have taken the first premium at three different State fairs 

 during the last fall, viz., Ohio, Michigan, and Indiana. 



It may be used as a common pump or as a force pump ; 

 when used as the former, the nut on the top of the air cham- 

 ber should be unscrewed about two or three turns ; when 

 used with the hose, it should be screwed down perfectly tight. 

 The piston and rod can be drawn out at the top by unscrew- 

 ing the cap. 



POMOLOGICAL GOSSIP. 



New English Strawberies. — We stated in a late number of 

 the Magazine, that several new and superior kinds of Strawber- 

 ries were coming into fruit in our collection, and would afford 

 us an opportunity of testing and describing them. The season, 

 owing to the frequent showers of June, was favorable for the 

 crop, and our beds, of all sorts, never bore more abundantly, 

 or produced finer specimens. The new sorts we enumerated, 

 among which were Admiral Dundas, Sir Harry and Sir C. 

 Napier, were especially fine, and enabled us to show some of 

 the most remarkable specimens ever seen in this country. 

 Eighteen of the Admiral Dundas weighed one bound. None 

 of the plants had anything more than ordinary cultivation. 

 They were received from England in 1855, planted out on 

 an ordinary piece of ground, not trenched nor highly ma- 

 nured, and were allowed to run together in one bed, our ob- 

 ject being to test them under common culture, convinced 

 long ago, that if a strawberry will not do well in this way, it 

 will never become a popular variety, no matter how fine it 

 may be under extra treatment. We are gratified to find that 

 several of these new kinds promise all that was expected from 

 their high reputation in England. 



Admiral Dundas. — We place this first in order, as it is the 

 largest strawberry of all we have tried, and undoubtedly the 

 largest ever yet produced. It is a seedling of the late Mr. 

 Myatt,who has been so successful in produciug new varieties 



