198 Gardening Under Glass 



suckers may be allowed to come on again, which 

 will mature a crop much quicker than replanting, 

 although I do not think it advisable to leave 

 them in longer than two or three crops, as the 

 soil they are planted in will by that time need 

 renewing. 



In planting young plants, or what I shall term 

 rooted suckers, if everything goes well ripe fruit 

 may be looked for in, say, twelve or fourteen 

 months; whereas in the following crop, providing 

 the plants are in a healthy condition and not 

 disturbed more than cutting the old plants away, 

 allowing the suckers to grow, ripe fruit from 

 these established suckers may be had in nine or 

 ten months, say with a temperature at night of 

 70 degrees, 80 day or 85 degrees with sun heat. 



Pineapples require a fairly light house, al- 

 though from the middle of April to the end of 

 September a light shade on the glass, just 

 enough to break the hot sun rays, is all that is 

 necessary, and for this purpose there is nothing 

 better than naphtha and white lead. 



The varieties of Pineapples are numerous, 

 but many of those formerly included for forcing- 

 purposes are now seldom grown, the well-as- 

 certained good qualities of a few leading kinds 

 having gradually led to the discarding of in- 

 ferior sorts. While the few approved varieties 



