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I proceed now to the culture of the Ananas or Pine- 

 apple, the btft kinds of which are : 



imo, Pyramidcl Pine- apple, "with a yellow Flejl?., or. Ananas 

 aculeatus fruHu pyramidato, came aurea. Plutner. Ind. 

 Occid. bijl. plant. 



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I'ufficient quantity of air in the bed to nourifh the fruit, 

 and give it that vinous flavour which good fruit alwavs 

 abounds with ; and when the glafles are clofely ihut 

 down in the night, the vapours which arife from the fer- 

 mentation of the tan, and the perfpiration of the plants, 

 are clofely pent in, and being condenfed againil: theglaf- 

 feSi fall in water on the plants. 



Therefore, to remedy this inconvenience, it is now 

 the practice of thofe perfons who are defirous to propa- 

 gate this fruit, to erect low floves, with pits therein for 

 the hot-bed, in the manner hereafter deicribed : thefe 

 are built in different ways, according to the fancy of the 

 contriver. Some perfons build them with upright glalTes 

 in front, about four feet high, and Hoping glaffes over 

 thefe, which rife about fix feet nigh, fo that there is jull 

 height enough for perfons to walk upright on the back- 

 fide of the bark-bed. Others make but one ilope of 

 glafles, from the top of the ftove, down to the plate, 

 which lies about fix or eight inches above the bark pit, 

 in the front of this fiove ; fo that in this {love there is 

 no walk made in the front between the bark-pit and the 

 glafles ; but the inconveniency of v.atering the plants, 

 as alfo of coming near thoie plants which ^:t placed in 

 the front of the ftove, to clean them, has, in fome mea- 

 fure, brought them into difefteem ; fo that few perfons 

 do now build them, though the expcnce is much lefs 

 than of the other kind of ftoves One of thefe floves, 

 about twenty-five feet long in the clear, with the pit 

 for the tan reaching from end to end, and fix feet and 

 an half wide, will contain about an hundred plants; fo 

 that whoever is? defirous to have this fruit, may eafily 

 proportion their ftove to the quantity of fruit which they 

 are willing to have. 



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