The Gardener's New Director. 121 



The Defcrlption of the Pine-apple, or Ananas Stoves^ and 

 the Culture of thefe Plants to bring them to Fruit* 



HAVING already laid down the necefiaiy direclions 

 for making hot-beds for the kitchen-garden ule, as 

 well to have their produce early, as in perteftion ; I {hall 

 now proceed to give my direflions for ereding the Ananas 



or 



* The culture of the Pine-apple y and tbi management oj the 

 Stove, being corfidered the rnojl capital things in Garden- 

 ing, "jje feall, in order to give every thing neceffury for 

 the injlriiflion of young praclitioners, introduce juch di~ 

 regions as have been given by Philip Miller, Efq\ of 

 nvhcm our avthcr makes mofl honourable mention ; and with 

 them, the plans of fuch fioves as are in general ujc. 



Stoves are contrivances for the preserving tender exo- 

 tick plants, v/hich will nor live in thefe northern coun- 

 tries, without artificial warmth in winter, Thefe are 

 built in different methods, according to the ingenuity of 

 the artift, or r!ie different purpofes for which they are 

 intended, hut in England they are at prefent reducible to 

 two or three. 



The firft is called a dry ftove, being fo contrived, that 

 the flues through which the fruit pafies, are either car- 

 ried under the pavement cf the floor, or elfe are ere&ed 

 in the back part of the houfe, over each other, and are 

 returned fix or eight times the whole length of the 

 flove, according to the height. In the!e fioves the plants 

 are placed on fliclves of boards laid on a fcaffold, riling 

 above each other like the feats in a theatre, for the great- 

 er advantage of their ftanding in fight, and enjoying an 

 equal fliare of light and air. In theie fl:oves are com- 

 monly placed the tender forts of Aloes, Cereufes, Eu- 

 phorbiums, Tithvmals, and other fucculent plants, which 

 are impatient of nioiflure in winter, and require for the 

 m<>i> part to be kept in a (eparatc Itove, and not placed 

 amun^r trees, or herbaceous p'ants, which perfpire Iree- 

 Iv, and ilicre'hy olten caufe a damp air in the houie, 



which 



