THE PINE APPLE. 



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SECT. XIII. 



Culture of the Pine Apple, as practised by Mr. Gunter, at 

 Earlscourt, near Kensington ; Mr. Grange, at Kingsland ; 

 and Mr. Wilmot, of Isleivorth. 



THE family of Mr. Gunter have long possessed 

 the very extensive gardens of Earlscourt, and 

 grown in them kitchen vegetables, excellent hardy 

 fruits, and melons, for the London market j but it 

 is only within the last seven years that they have 

 commenced the culture of the Pine Apple for the 

 same purpose. This Mr. R. Gunter has done on 

 the most liberal and extensive scale, and with great 

 and merited success. 



Form of House. Like Mr. Andrews, Mr. Gun- 

 ter uses both pits and large houses ; in the pits he 

 both nurses the plants, and fruits them, and in the 

 large houses he fruits the Pine Apple, and produces 

 very early grapes at the same time. 



The large houses (fig. 12.J are, in what may be 



