THE PINE APPLE. 71 



" The brick bed of my inventing, (fig. 10.) for forc- 

 ing early cucumbers, answers well for growing small 

 succession plants. A pit built on the same construc- 

 tion, but of larger dimensions, without cross flues, 

 is a suitable one for growing Pine Apple plants of 

 any size ; for by linings of dung the air in it can 

 be kept to a degree of heat sufficient to grow and 

 ripen the Pine Apple in summer, as well as it ^can 

 be done with fire heat, only it will require a little 

 more labour and plenty of dung. 



Soil. " The Pine Apple plant will grow very well 

 in any sort of rich earth taken from a quarter of the 

 kitchen garden, or in fresh sandy loam taken from 

 a common, long pastured with sheep, &c. If the 

 earth be not of a rich sandy quality of darkish 

 colour, it should be mixed well with some perfectly 

 rotten dung and sand, and if a little vegetable mould 

 is put among it, it will do it good, and also a little 

 soot. Though Pine plants will grow in earth of 

 the strongest texture, yet I have found by expe- 

 rience that they grow most freely in good sandy 

 loam not of a binding quality. 



General management. * * The method which I used 

 to cultivate the Pine Apple is the following : The 

 fruit being partly over, and a cucumber brick bed 

 prepared for unstruck crowns and suckers, towards 

 the end of August or September, I planted them 

 in rich earth in pots suitable to the size of the 

 plants ; I then had the pots plunged to their rims 

 in the tan bed in which there was a good growing 



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