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Culture of the Pine-apple laithout Pots, 



sary, when the heat of the manure subsides, or when there is 

 a deficiency of solar heat, to light fires in the stoves at the 

 ends (««), and to keep up a heat of from 14° to 16° Reaumur, 



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a a. Stoves. 



Ground Plan of the Pit. 

 b, Platform of boards, serving as a pathway. 



c, Steps to platform. 



63" to 68° Fahrenheit. In summer I allow the plants from 

 30° to 36° Reaum., 99° to 113° Fahr. of solar heat, and, only 

 when the sun is too hot, a few hours' shade is given, by fir 

 branches or reed mats being placed on the sashes. In 

 July, or the beginning of August, the plants are watered, when 

 necessary, with cows' urine, diluted with one half water ; and 

 subsequently I only sprinkle them with fine river water. 

 When a day has been very hot, in the height of summer, the 

 plants are rather freely sprinkled in the evening, before the 

 sashes are covered up, with river water ; which, producing a 

 vapour during the night, is very beneficial to the fruit, and 

 also gives the plants a clean look. 



/, Dung. 

 g. Soil in which the plants grow. 



Section d e of fig. 91. 



ft. Vacuity under the stove. 



i. Platform of boards. 



k. Steps to platform. 

 1 1, Level of the grounds. 



When the plants have done bearing, which is in August or 

 September, I let them stand without doing any thing to them, 

 except shortening the leaves of the main stem where the fi'uit 

 has been growing, for the purpose of procuring more air and 

 light to the new shoots or suckers. I have frequently taken 

 from thirty to forty suckers from one old stock. About April 

 the suckers are thinned, the finest being left standing : the 

 others are put into pots, although never smaller than of the 

 appearance of two or three years' growth. Then the ground 



