

THE PINE APPLE. 



SECT. XII. 



Culture of the Pine Apple by Mr. James Andrews, commercial 

 gardener, Vauxliall. 



MR. ANDREWS has been considered the best 

 grower of Pines in the neighbourhood of London 

 for many years ; his principal object is to grow 

 fruit for the market ; but the demand for the 

 plants by private gardeners, and others, has generally 

 been so great, that he can seldom keep the plants 

 till the last stage of their growth. 



Form of House. Both pits and larger houses are 

 used ; but there is nothing particular in the form 

 of either. Mr. Andrews seldom erects new work, 

 but generally purchases old hot-houses and sashes 

 at the sales of decayed gentlemen, or bankrupt 

 tradesmen. In this respect he follows the practice 

 of Mr. Lee of Hammersmith, and both have gene- 

 rally a stock of old sashes and rafters on hand ready 

 to put up when wanted. But though the form of 

 Mr. Andrews' houses may be said to be in a great 

 degree matter of accident, yet the arrangement of 

 the flues within is his own. These generally en- 

 ter at the front corner of one end, pass to the op- 

 posite end, return along the back wall, where they 

 sometimes serve as a path, and at other times are 

 placed at one side of the path, occasionally a re- 

 turn is made, and the chimney-top is formed in the 

 back wall, at the opposite end to that in which the 

 fire enters ; when this is not the case, the smoke 



