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are dry, put them into smaller pots than before, 

 and plunge them into the bark-bed." 



Fruit produced. Mr. Griffin's object seems to have 

 been to produce large fruit in the proper season. 

 In the year 1802, when gardener to J. C. Girardot, 

 Esq. at Kelham, near Nottingham, he cut twenty 

 Queen Pines, which weighed together eighty-seven 

 pounds seven ounces. In 1803, one weighing five 

 pounds three ounces. In July, 1804, one of the 

 New Providence kind, weighing seven pounds two 

 ounces. In August, 1804, one of the same kind, 

 weighing nine pounds three ounces. And in 1805, 

 he cut twenty-two Queen Pines, which weighed 

 together one hundred and eighteen pounds three 

 ounces. 



SECT. X. 



Culture of the Pine Apple, by Mr. Thomas Baldwin, Gardener 

 to the Marquis of Hertford, at Ragley, in Warwickshire, from 

 1805 to the present time. 



MR. BALDWIN is reputed the first Pine cultivator 

 in England ; he has given some account of his 

 practice in a tract of a few pages, which, being sold 

 much above the usual price of printed books, never 

 obtained so much circulation as manuscript copies 

 of it, which were handed about among the principal 

 Pine-growers near London. 



