146 IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CULTURE OF 



CHAR V. 



IMPROVEMENTS RECENTLY ATTEMPTED IN THE CUL- 

 TURE OF THE PINE APPLE. 



THE Pine Apple has never been so generally cul- 

 tivated in this country as it might have been, from 

 an idea that its culture is attended with more diffi- 

 culty and expense than that of all other fruits ; and, 

 also, from the circumstance of the greater number 

 of gardeners being ignorant of its cultivation. 

 With respect to the difficulty of cultivating this 

 fruit, every gardener, who knows any thing about 

 it, knows it is much easier grown and fruited than 

 the cucumber early in spring, or the melon at 

 any period of the year. In short, with the single 

 difference of requiring an artificial temperature, it 

 is as easy, or easier to grow than a common cab- 

 bage : it is not nearly so liable to insects as that 

 plant is in dry seasons ; and of two plantations, the 

 one of crowns or suckers of Pines, and the other of 

 seedling cabbages, we may venture to assert, that 

 more of the former will perfect their fruit than 

 those of the latter will perfect their loaf or head. 



With respect to the expense of cultivating the 

 Pine Apple, it must be acknowledged that it is 

 greater than that required to cultivate any other 



