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tain any injury. I have also been subsequently 

 informed by one of my friends, Sir Harford Jones, 

 who has had most ample opportunities of observ- 

 ing, that he has frequently seen, in the east, the 

 Pine Apple growing in the open air, where the 

 surface of the ground, early in the mornings, 

 showed unequivocal marks of a slight degree of 

 frost. 



" My plants remained nearly torpid, and without 

 growth, during the latter part of November, and 

 in the whole of December ; but they began to grow 

 early in January, although the temperature of the 

 house rarely reached 60 ; and about the 20th of 

 that month, the blossom, or rather the future fruit, 

 of the earliest plant, became visible ; and subse- 

 quently to that period their growth has appeared 

 very extraordinary to gardeners who had never 

 seen Pine plants growing, except in a bark-bed or 

 other hot-bed. I believe this rapidity of growth, 

 in rather low temperature, may be traced to the 

 more exciteable state of their roots, owing to their 

 having passed the winter in a very low temperature 

 comparatively with that of a bark-bed. The plants 

 are now supplied with water in moderate quanti- 

 ties, and holding in solution a less quantity of food 

 than was given them in summer. 



" In planting suckers, I have, in several in- 

 stances, left the stems and roots of the old plant 

 remaining attached to them ; and these have made 

 a much more rapid progress than others. One 

 strong sucker was thus planted in a large pot 



