300 



they produced a few years back ; and pine- 

 apple ices are already become as common as 

 those of raspberry, in the shops of the London 

 confectioners. 



Should the heating of stoves, by steam, 

 answer to the expected extent, and the duty 

 on garden glass be relinquished, we shall soon 

 have African gardens of great extent on the 

 banks of the Thames, and pine-apples cried 

 through our streets two for a crown. 



The late Sir Joseph Banks says, that it 

 does not require the foresight of a prophet to 

 foretell, that in less than half a century we 

 shall have forcing houses of such an extent, 

 that our markets will be supplied with the 

 aki, and the avocado pear of the West Indies, 

 the flat peaches, the mandarine orange, and 

 the Litchi of China ; the mango, (which has 

 already been ripened at Kew, in the autumn 

 of 1808), the mangostan, and the durion of 

 the East Indies, and possibly other valuable 

 fruits. 



Since writing the above account, this fruit 

 has for the first time been imported as an 

 article of commerce from the Bermuda islands. 

 The importation consisted of about 400 pine- 

 apples of the species called the Green Pro- 

 vidence. These were purchased by Mr. Mart, 

 of Oxford Street, fruiterer, who informed me, 



