2 FOREIGN MODES OF CULTIVATING 



The cause seems referable to deficiency of water, 

 and too great heat during night ; for during day 

 they have the precaution to shade them from the 

 sun's direct influence. 



SECT. V. 



Culture of the Pine Apple in Italy. 



THE" Pine Apple was grown in Italy before the 

 revolution, by the Pope, at Naples, and by the king of 

 Sardinia, at Turin. The late king of Sardinia sent 

 his gardener to England, to study the culture of 

 this fruit ; and he returned and published in 1777> 

 a pamphlet on the subject. He recommends it to 

 be grown in pits, much the same as those of the 

 Dutch, but without flues, which is still the general 

 practice in Italy. After the possession of Piedmont 

 by the French, the royal palaces and gardens were 

 neglected, and in 1819, when we saw them, they 

 were not restored. 



At the royal gardens, and those of Prince 

 Leopold, at Portici, near Naples, a few Pines are 

 grown in pits, by two German gardeners, that of 

 Prince Leopold, an intelligent man and a good 

 botanist ; but the plants, notwithstanding the fine 

 climate, are etiolated, slender, and pale, with very 

 small fruit. The pits were entirely sunk in the 

 ground, narrow, and without flues, and they were 

 shaded in the day-time with a net. It appeared to 

 us, that they were much too tenderly treated ; if 



