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We hope these results will be profitable to those that 

 have good vine-houses or conservatories, 



We have now a considerable variety of this exquisite 

 fruit, and new kinds are frequently procured by the 

 curious from the seed, which is very small, of a kidney 

 shape, and lodged like the seeds of berries in the tuber- 

 cles ; but the pine is chiefly propagated by planting the 

 crowns or suckers, which latter come more quickly to 

 maturity, and are therefore more generally preferred 

 The most rare kind is the green pine, which was brought 

 from Barbadoes ; the black pine is of late introduction* 

 Of the older varieties, the sugar-loaf pine, with a yellow- 

 ish flesh, is greatly preferred to the oval-shaped fruit of 

 a paler colour. The Welbeck-seedling is a pine justly 

 admired ; as is the blood-pine, a variety grown by Mr. 

 Wilmot of Isleworth, who makes the following just re- 

 mark : " like the strawberry," says he, " pines would be 

 better reduced to four or five varieties." 



The heaviest pine-apple, we believe, that has been 

 grown in this country, weighed eleven pounds ; and the 

 one exhibited at the London Horticultural Society and 

 afterwards presented to his Majesty for his coronation 

 dinner, was the largest ever seen in England, but was 

 not quite so heavy, weighing ten pounds eight ounces. 

 There has also been cut in the hot-house of the Right 

 Hon. Thomas Wallace, of Carlton Hall, a pine-apple, 

 weighing nine pounds four ounces and a half. It was 

 brought to this high state of perfection by the skilful 

 management of Mr. Thomas Todd, gardener. 



It is stated by William Bastard, Esq. in the Philoso- 

 phical Transactions for 1777, that pine-apples raised in 

 water are larger and finer flavoured than those raised in 

 bark beds ; the plants are set in pots of earth which are 

 kept in a pan of water that is kept full, and placed in the 

 hottest part of the forcing-house. 



