THE PINE APPLE. 



was used. He produces fruit from half a pound 

 to two pounds in weight, and it is said of a good 

 flavour. 



Rosier states, that M. Mal- 

 let, a curious horticulturist, 

 grew ananas in a peculiarly 

 constructed frame of his own 

 invention (fig. 3.) ; but we 

 could see none of these frames 

 in use in any way, and were 



informed by different persons, that they were too 

 expensive in their first cost to succeed. 



The Pine plants in the royal gardens, did not 

 appear to us so well cultivated as those of M. 

 Boursault; they were very much drawn, and 

 seemed too sparingly watered. All the Pine 

 plants which we have seen in France, and also in 

 Italy, had this yellow sickly appearance ; and the 

 fruit produced was universally of small size ; one 

 of three pips is thought worth presenting to table. 

 It is certainly a very singular fact, and not hither- 

 to explained, that the Pine plant in a climate where 

 it gets more light than in Germany, Britain, or 

 Russia, should yet be less green than in those 

 countries. Had the reverse been the case, the 

 circumstance would not have been surprising; 

 but that more greenth should be produced in the 

 northern hemisphere, and under the torrid zone, 

 than under what might be considered as a happy 

 medium between two extremes, is astonishing, and 

 leads to a suspicion of deficiency of management. 



