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gree of success,) to learn what ? why, to spoil his 

 plants, with the loss of both money and reputation." 



" Notwithstanding the directions of Miller, Hill, 

 (probably alluding to a letter on the Pine Apple 

 in " Gardener's New Calendar," written by Sir 

 John Hill, under his assumed name of Barnes,) 

 Meader, &c. who have endeavoured to explore the 

 method how the Pine Apple is to be grown ; yet, 

 upon trial, the success has always fallen much 

 short of their expectation. For these reasons, Mr. 

 Giles " presents the public with explicit directions 

 for managing and bringing to perfection the Pine 

 Apple ; in which all the obstacles and difficulties 

 which gardeners have met with in raising that fruit 

 are remedied, and the true method pointed out in 

 a clear and satisfactory manner." Preface, p. vii. 



Form of House. The plants are brought forward 

 in pits, and afterwards fruited in a stove forty feet 

 long and twelve feet wide, with a pit six feet wide, 

 surrounded by a path, and a flue which makes three 

 returns in a flue close under the back wall. The 

 front of the pit is about three, and the back about 

 five feet from the glass. It will fruit, he says, a 

 hundred plants annually, they being brought for- 

 ward in the low pits or frames, and removed to the 

 fruiting-house in September or October. 



The obvious objection to the plan of his house is 

 the having no flue in front. 



Soil. A rich hazely loam from a well-pastured 

 common. This soil alone, he says, not only an- 

 swers well for Pines, but for most vegetables. 



