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an abundance of fine fruit, which 

 has led to the gradual abandon- 

 ment of stove cultivation. 



Pineapples should be grown in 

 pots in a hothouse, should be 

 placed in a sunny position, and the 

 pots plunged into a hotbed at a 

 temperature from 65 to 75 F. 

 The soil should consist of a tho- 

 roughly mixed compost of loam, 

 well-decayed manure, and a little 

 lime, or crushed bones or oyster 

 shells. When established, the tem- 

 perature may be allowed to drop 

 10 during the winter months. 

 Water should be given freely in 

 summer time, when the tempera- 

 ture should be brought up to 80 to 

 90, but very sparingly during 

 autumn and winter. With proper 

 care, a pineapple stock will yield a . 

 ripe fruit every eight months for a 

 number of years. See Australia ; 

 Hawaiian Islands. 



Pine Bluff. City of Arkansas, 

 U.S.A., the co. seat of Jefferson co. 

 It stands on the S. bank of the 

 Arkansas river, 44 m. by rly. S.S.E. 

 of Little Rock, and is served by 

 the St. Louis, South-Western, 

 and other rlys. Among its educa- 

 tional institutions is the Merrill 

 Institute. Manufactures include 

 cotton, cotton-seed oil, foundry 

 and machine-shop products, boilers, 

 and furniture. Pine Bluff was 

 organized in 1832, and became a 

 city in 1885. Pop. 19,300. 



Pine Creek. Name of many 

 streams and small towns in U.S.A. 

 In Pennsylvania one of these 

 streams is a tributary of the 

 Susquehanna, 100 m. in length. 

 In Alaska and hi the Yukon dist. 

 of Canada there are such streams 

 whence gold is obtained. In the 

 Northern Territory of Australia, 

 Pine Creek is 146 m. S. E. of Darwin ; 

 the rly. from the latter port has 

 been extended 60 m. S.E. of Pine 

 Creek to Katherine. 



Pinega. River of N. Russia. It 

 rises in the govt. of Vologda, flows 

 generally N.W. through that of 

 Archangel, and discharges itself 

 into the Northern Dvina, near 

 Kholmogory. Its length is 350 m. 



Pinel, PHILIPPE (1745-1826). 

 French physician. Born at Saint- 

 Andre, Tarn, April 20, 1745, he 

 was educated at the university of 

 Toulouse. He studied medicine 

 and, after having written a treatise 

 on mental disease, became a 

 lecturer and then a professor at a 

 medical school in Paris, and chief 

 physician at important hospitals 

 there. Pinel, who did a great deal 

 to secure more rational and humane 

 treatment for lunatics, died in Paris, 

 Oct. 26, 1826. 



Piuene. Hydrocarbon of the 

 terpene group. It is the chief 

 constituent of oils distilled from 



resinous excretions of pine trees, as 

 turpentine. Pinene is a colourless 

 liquid, which on keeping becomes 

 resinified through the absorption 

 of oxygen from the air. When 

 hydrochloric acid gas is passed into 

 pinene, the hydrochloride known 

 as artificial camphor is formed. 



Piuero, SIR ARTHUR WING (b. 

 1855). British dramatist. Born in 

 London, May 24, 1855, the son of a 

 solicitor, he was an actor from 1874 

 until 1881, when he took to writing 

 for the stage. After some pre- 

 liminary success, notably with The 

 Squire, 1881, and The Magistrate, 

 1885, he produced a series of 

 brilliant com- 

 edies at the 

 Court Theatre, 

 1885-93, a 

 charming com- 

 edy of senti- 

 ment, Sweet 

 Lavender, 

 1888, and the 

 dramatic play, 



The Profligate, 1889. He secured his 

 place as the foremost living 

 British dramatist with The Second 

 Mrs. Tanqueray, 1893. Later plays 

 include The Notorious Mrs. Ebb- 

 smith, 1895 ; Trelawney of the 

 Wells, 1898 ; The Gay Lord Quex, 

 1899 ; His House in Order, 1906 ; 

 Mid-Channel, 1909; The "Mind 

 the Paint" Girl, 1912; The Big 

 Drum, 1915 ; Mr. Livermore's 

 Dream, 1917. Pinero was knighted 

 in 1909. Pron. Pin-ay-ro. 



Pinerolo. City of Italy, in the 

 prov. of Turin. It stands on the 

 river Chisone, at the foot of the 

 Alps, 24 m. by rly. S.W. of Turin. 

 The chief buildings are the cathe- 



dral, dedicated to S. Donatus, and 

 the palace, the successor of the 

 famous castle. The city has manu- 

 factures of textiles, leather, paper, 

 etc. Pinerolo was at one time one 

 of the strongest places in Italy. 

 It grew up around a castle which 

 about 1 190 was taken by the count 

 of Savoy. A later count made it 

 his capital and it remained a 

 possession of the house of Savoy, 

 save for short periods when it 

 was in French hands. During one 

 of these periods, early in the 

 17th century, the French greatly 

 improved the fortifications. The 

 castle is notable because in it 

 Fouquet and the man in the iron 

 mask were imprisoned. Pop. 18,000. 

 Pinfold. Enclosure, or pound, 

 in which strayed cattle are placed. 

 See Pound. 



Ping-pong OR TABLE TENNIS. 

 Indoor form of lawn tennis. It was 

 played on a table not less than 5 ft. 

 by 3 ft. About 1900-2 the game 

 had a great vogue in England, 

 and the Ping-Pong Association 

 and the Table Tennis Association 

 were formed. The regulation size 

 of the table was fixed at 9 ft. by 

 5 ft., with a net about 7 ins. high, 

 the balls being of thick celluloid, 

 of an inch in diameter, and seam- 

 less. The surface of the table was 

 generally of composition, stained 

 black or dark green, with a painted 

 white line round the edge. The 

 game was first played with a 

 battledore, then a racquet with 

 springs was tried, and then a 

 wooden bat, more or less of the 

 shape of a tennis racquet, and 

 covered with rubber or glass paper. 

 Later a plain wooden bat was used. 



The counting could be done ac- 

 cording to lawn tennis or racquet 

 scoring. In a third method each 



Ping-pong or Table Tennis. Table adapted for the game, showing arrangement 

 of net and position of players 



