170 IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CULTURE OF 



yations it will elicit from the fertile and ingenious 

 mind of so candid and philosophical a horticul- 

 turist. 



Sir William Edward Rous Boughton has erected 

 a house or pit at Downton Hall, similar to that of 

 Mr. Knight, but rather wider. * Pines are grown 

 in it on Mr. Knight's plan, but the plants were 

 not in a thriving state in November last. Charles 

 Holford, Esq. of Hampstead, is also a disciple of 

 Mr. Knight as to the culture of this fruit, but he 

 has not yet been very successful. 



SECT. II. 



Of other Improvements in the Culture of the Pine Apple, by 

 different persons. 



WE shall first notice the improvements which 

 respect bottom-heat, and begin with noticing an 

 attempt made by Mr. Thomas Jenkins, of the Port- 

 man Nursery, London, to warm both the pots in 

 which the plants are grown, and the air of the 

 house, by the heat generated by fermenting stable- 

 dung placed in a vault beneath. 



It is only within the last three years that Mr. 

 Jenkins has begun to grow the Pine Apple to any 



* The roofs, both of this house and that of Mr. Knight, were 

 furnished by Messrs. W. & D. Bailey, of Holborn, London. 



