THE PINE APPLE. Gj 



in the months of August and September, but these 

 are generally thought of no value, and, consequently, 

 thrown away. To prevent this, I frequently take 

 such plants out of the hot-house as soon as their 

 fruit begin to appear. I then set them in a shed or 

 out-house for five or six weeks ; at the expiration 

 of which time I pot them as in the month of March, 

 after shaking off their balls. After this I plunge 

 them into the tan." 



What was the common weight of the Queen 

 Pines produced at Welbeck, he does not inform us ; 

 but a fruit of the New Providence, produced in 

 the gardens at Welbeck in 1794, weighed 5 Jib., or 

 84 oz. He generally fruited the Queen Pine in the 

 third season, being under two years of time ; and 

 the Providence and Antigua in the fourth season. 



SECT. VII. 



Culture of the Pine Apple by James M'Phail, gardener to the late 

 Earl of Liverpool, at Addlscombe, in Surrey, from 1788 to 

 1808. 



Mr. M'Phail, when in practice, was reckoned one 

 of the first growers of the Pine Apple in England ; 

 he grew the plants, and also fruited them chiefly in 

 pits ; the pots plunged in bark, and the bark inclos- 

 ed by a perforated wall of his invention, and heated 

 by linings of dung. He also grew them in larger 

 buildings. 



Form of House. No great consequence is at- 

 tached to the construction of the house by this 

 gardener. WiiereL, Pines are to be grown in a hot- 



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