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 only the largest, slips are used, but in the high priced varie- 

 ties all slips are saved and planted. 



Crown Slips, These are plants that originate at the 

 upper end of the fruit. In some of the varieties, the crown 

 is weuitlng and a tuft of crovm slips is produced instead. 

 Crown slips are utilized only in the high-priced varieties. 



Crowns, The fuft of short leaves at the apex of the 

 fruit. It takes these a year longer to nature a crop than it 

 does large suckers, so they are not employed extensively. 



Pine. The ordinary abhreviation for pineapple both on 

 the plantation and on the market. 



Sanded, or sanding. Referrin-' to sand being blown into 

 the buds of newly set plants. 



Shed, A structure v/hich produces half shade, used to 

 equalize the extremes of temperatiire, 



Tanglewort, A pathological condition in which the roots 

 or part of them are wound tightlj?- around the stern of the plant. 



Climate 



A climate with a temperature never reaching the freezing 

 point and with a dry atmosphere is necessary for the produc- 

 tion of pineapples. A matured leaf will lie upon a table in 

 the dry room of a dwelling for two months without decaying or 

 drying up, but it will rot in less than two vmeks if it be 

 placed in an atmosphere saturated with moisture. Pineapple 

 plants may be shipped from the Hawaiian Islands to Florida if 

 they be kept dry. 



