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General Management. He recommends keeping 

 a moist atmosphere in the house, and giving abun- 

 dance of air when the plants are in fruit. His 

 other directions relate to mere routine practices, 

 and offer nothing else worth quoting. 



Insects. A moist atmosphere, he says, will keep 

 down these. " It is only poor plants," he says, 

 " which are not in a good state of health, that 

 are infested with insects. They are encouraged 

 by the warmth and dryness of the air of the stove, 

 and the bad state of the plants ; but where cleanli- 

 ness and moisture are attended to, there will never 

 be any worth notice." P. 36. 



Fruit produced. He fruits the Queen Pine in 

 two years, at the usual season ; but does not state 

 to what size the fruit attains. 



SECT. V. 



Culture of -the Pine Apple, by Adam Taylor, Gardener at 

 Devizes, in Wiltshire, 1769. 



THIS author, who was gardener to J. Sutton, 

 Esq. at New Park, professes " to lay down a 

 mode by which the Pine Apple may be produced 

 in higher perfection, with more ease and less ex- 

 pense than has been hitherto known in this cli- 

 mate." He offers his treatise with confidence, as 

 not being founded on hypothesis, but on some 

 years' experience ; and it may be depended on, as 

 " it admits of the attestation of many persons 

 whose taste and judgment are unquestionable." 



