THE PINE-APPLE. 341 
tribe made it a rule to keep his trees rather cool, and with 
plenty of air in mild weather, till the fruit was fairly set; 
after which he found that he could apply more heat with- 
out the risk of the fruit failing. 
The orange-tree prospers in a rich, fresh, and rather 
strong soil; and, in this country, it is the practice to mix 
with it a considerable portion of well-rotted manure. When 
grown in pots or boxes, the plant should be shifted, and 
the earth partly renewed, every spring. In summer, co- 
pious waterings are given, and the leaves are syringed once 
or twice a week. The heads are kept thin, and any branches 
which inconveniently cross each other areremoved. When 
planted against trellises, they are trained in the fan form ; 
and in laying in the shoots, allowance is to be made for the 
size of the leaves in the different species. 
THe Pine-Appie (Bromehia Ananas L. or Ananassa 
sativa) is comparatively of recent introduction into Bri- 
tain. It was nearly unknown to English horticulturists in 
the beginning of the eighteenth century; for Thoresby, the 
Leeds antiquary, kept a leaf of the pine-apple in his mu- 
seum as a curiosity. It is now largely and successfully 
cultivated in all the principal: gardens in Britain. Its cul- 
ture requires all the ingenuity, judgment, and watchfulness 
of the skillful and diligent horticulturist; and we shall, 
therefore, treat of it at considerable length: It derives its 
name from the general resemblance of its fruit to a large cone 
of a pine-tree. The fruit is a kind of pulpy strobilus, 
formed of coadunate berries, and crowned at top with tuft 
of small pointed leaves. The flavor of the pulp is of the 
most exquisite kind. The plant is herbaceous, and the fruit- 
stem, which generally appears in the second or third year, 
is surrounded with long serrated leaves, resembling those 
