INTRODUCTION. 



A CONSIDERABLE interest has been excited in 

 the Horticultural world by the experiments 

 of T. A. Knight, Esq. on the culture of the 

 PINE APPLE. Our object is to add our efforts 

 to those of that eminent Horticulturist, in 

 promoting the culture of that king of fruits. 



The means which we consider as most 

 likely to attain our object, is the bringing to- 

 gether accounts of all the different modes of 

 treating that Plant, which have hitherto been 

 adopted in Europe ; and the sources from 

 which we have drawn the means, are the dif- 

 ferent publications which have appeared on 

 the Pine Apple, and our own observations on 

 its management, by those Gardeners who are 

 its most successful cultivators. 



