360 FORCING GARDEN. 
held, lest the flavor should be injured. Pine-apples should 
be cut a short time before they attain complete maturity. 
The larger varieties will keep good only for a day or two; 
the smaller varieties a week or more. 
The following tabular compendium is from Abercrom- 
bie, altered, however, in some of its details, to suit the idea 
of two crops a year. To execute this plan, two fruiting- 
houses or pits, and one succession-pit, would be required 
together with a variety of hotbeds, or pits for the nursing 
department. It is necessary to premise, that crowns and 
suckers are usually potted soon after they are taken off, 
and that August 15 may be considered the date at which 
the whole operations of potting should be finished. When 
there is only a biennial course, it commences from about 
February 14, 
