THE PINE APPLE. 1$ 



lushed with fine prickles, fruit of which I have had 

 seven inches high, and thirteen inches in circum- 

 ference ; this sort, if it is kept cool before it shows 

 fruit, and then advances slowly by somewhat more 

 heat, grows larger and more pointed than that 

 which has been kept warmer and in a growing state 

 during winter. The leaves of the second sort are 

 larger and broader, of a darker green mixed with 

 red ; it does not produce fruit of so large a size, 

 but its knobs are broader and larger, yet flater ; 

 the unripe fruit being of a reddish brown, and 

 when ripe of a deep yellow, with brownish yellow 

 spots on the knobs ; this sort has not so pleasant a 

 taste as the first, which, when unripe, is of a darker 

 green, and when ripe, with lighter yellow knobs, 

 on which account I cultivate chiefly the following 

 sort. 



This is called the Smooth Ananas, on account of 

 its being without prickles, but the ends of the 

 leaves grow longer, narrower, and more upright : 

 the fruit is smaller. The Ananas cannot bear the 

 cold of our winter, and must have in summer a 

 more permanent warmth and less change in the 

 winter than we commonly have in our climate ; and 

 must therefore not only be put during the winter 

 into stoves, but even during the summer under 

 glass frames, and the pots placed in a hot-bed of 

 tan. However, it is with these plants, as it is with 

 all others from a warmer climate ; when they by 

 degrees have been accustomed to our colder cli- 

 mate, they become more hardy, and can bear more 



