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BRITISH MODES OF CULTIVATING 



SECT. III. 



Culture of the Pine Apple, by James Justice, Esq. F.R.S. at 

 Crichton, near Edinburgh, in 1732, and for some years after- 

 wards. 



THIS gentleman was one of the greatest amateurs 

 of gardening of his time, and a most successful 

 cultivator of every thing he attempted. He had a 

 fine garden at Crichton, near Edinburgh, and cor- 

 responded with various foreign horticulturists of 

 Holland and Italy, as well as with Miller, Bradley, 

 and other eminent English gardeners of his time. 



Form of Howe. Justice, writing in 1754, says, 

 " There have of late years been erected in England 

 and Scotland, many sorts of stoves for the culture 

 of the Pine Apple ; but I am sure, after many ex- 

 periments, that the plan here annexed is the best. 



In this stove, (fig. 5.) with one fire, I can do the 

 business of two stoves, which must have two fires, 

 and cultivate the old as well as the young plants," 

 The front and ends of this house are of glass, as well 

 as the roof; the flue enters from behind at one end, 



