566 Culture of the Pine-apple. 



the projecting live vegetable cope ; a cope which can easily 

 be rendered close or open, according to the wish or ftxncy of 

 the gardener ; and which, in point of taste, utility, cheapness, 

 and elegance, can never be matched by the clumsy projections 

 of wood or stone. I am, Sir, yours, &c. 



Archibald Gorrie. 

 Annat Gardens, July 17. 1833. 



The beautiful manner in which the branches of a plant of 

 the Virginian creeper (Ampelopsis /zederacea Mr.), now in 

 sight, are festooning the arms of a pear tree, from which the 

 extremities of some of the creeper's branches depend in ver- 

 dant garlands to the ground, and thus, in outline, form a 

 tasteful bower, suggest the question, might not this very 

 rapidly and most extensively growing shrub, abundant in 

 ample deep green shading leaves in summer, " in scarlet 

 honours bright in autumn," and leafless in winter ; and far- 

 ther, fastening, by its clasping tendrils, its own branches to 

 the trellis over which they may be led, be used, in the ab- 

 sence of the double-flowered Ayrshire rose, or other plants 

 as eligible, to serve the same umbrageous office? — J. D. 

 August 27. 1833. 



Art. XIV. On the Advantage of gromng Pine-apple Plants in 

 Pots made mth Holes in their Sides. By John Hawkins, Esq. 



Sir, 

 About forty years ago I was a grower of pine-apple plants, 

 and observing that those plants throve the best whose roots 

 grew out at the bottoms of the pots into the tan, I was led to 

 have a few pots made with eight holes in the sides of each, 

 to let the roots of the plants run out at into the tan. These 

 holes were made at equal distances, about the circumference 

 of my finger, round the pot, and from three to four inches 

 from the top ; but by some cause or other my growing 

 of pines was discontinued at that time, and until February 

 last, when I again became a grower of pines for my own 

 table, and again used the pots which had lain by so many 

 years. The advantage of these pots over any other became 

 then very apparent, both by the strength of the plants, and 

 the quickness of their growth. The leaves of some of them 

 were nearly white. I measured the length of a root of the 

 plants when they were moved the other day, and found it 

 above a foot long, although broken off. It appeared to have 

 run many feet into the tan, if it did not reach the bed of 

 leaves under the tan, which I suspect it did. 



