ON THE 



CULTIVATION 



OF THE 



PINE APPLE 



CHAP. I. 



OF THE PINE APPLE. 



Its Culture in the West and East Indies. Introduction to 

 Holland. To England. 



THE Pine Apple is the Bromelia Ananas of Lin- 

 neus ; of the artificial class and order Hexandria 

 Monogynia ; and of the natural order of Jussieu, 

 Bromelese. The generic name was originally 

 Ananas, from Nana, its common name in the 

 Brazils ; and the Queen Pine is named the Ana- 

 nas Ovata, in the earlier editions of Miller's 

 Dictionary ; but Linneus changed it to Bromelia, 

 in memory of Olaus Bromel, a Swedish natu- 

 ralist, and included under it the Karatas, or Wild 

 Pine, till then considered, a distinct genus. The 

 English name of Pine Apple appears to have 



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