A COMPLEAT BODY 
Culture of the Pin E-ApPLE. 
The Superiority of this Fruit over all others, 
an Tafte-and Excellence, has made it-the great 
Arucle otf polite Gardening. We fhall deliver ~ 
$ts Culture not from the irregular Direétions of 
others; who, while they affect to difclofe, appa- 
rently with to conceal the Art for their private 
Advantage 5 but from: Experience. = : 
Trisa Native of Surinam, of the hotteft on 
| tries of South America, and of fome inland Parts of — 
Africa, There it perfumes the Air for Miles ; 
and murthers many of the Natives by Surfeits. 
From thefe Places the Knowledge of the Plant 
came into Exrope ; and its Culture from the Spanifh- 
We eft-Indies to our hotteft American Iflands. 
Dutch firtt rais’d it in this Part of the World; and 
 firft Requifites are*two : 
the Art being once found out’ by them, foon fpread 
itfelf into France and England. “At prefent we raife 
them equal to thofe of the Dutch ; and we fhall. 
endeavour here to lay the Method down familiarly. 
The Varieties we have nam’d have been pro- 
due’d from Seeds; and thofe who will take the. 
Pains to raife Plants in that Method will have | 
‘many more: but the ready Way is from the - 
_ Crowns and Suckers. - 
The oval-fruited Pine- Apple was firft known | 
in England, as it was the Kind originally rais’d in — 
Holland; but the Sugar-Loaf Kind is preferable, 
for many Reafons;.and is the Kind we fhall recom- 
mend to all who are about to begin a Pinery. 
The Fruit in this ufually is larger, and the 
Juice of a finer Flavour: and there is the great 
Advantage of its producing Suckers from. the 
Stalk, toward the Top, which in the oval are 
much lefs common. i 
From thefe Suckers, the Crowns, and thofe 
from the Sides of the Plant, the Pine-Apple is to 
be rais’d. | 
In order to the cultivating — thefe, _the 
. a Bark - Bed covered 
with a Frame and Glaffes; and a Stove with its 
Bark-Pit. The firft ferves to raife the Suckers 
and Crowns to a Condition of bearing Fruit; and 
the fecond is for bringing their Fruit to Perfeétion. 
Thefe are to be conftruéted in the following - 
Manner : 
_ Let the Frame over the Bark-Pit be built with 
_ Brick-work, «and. have Flues to warm the Air in 
AN unter. 
Let its Length and Breadth be accord- 
ing to the Quantity of Plants intended to be 
rais’d, and the Bignefs of the Stove to be firpply’d 
from it: but let the: Depth be fo much, that the 
Ghats Covering may be three Inches above the 
alee of the talleft Plants that need be kept in 
ut; and the Whole built frm and found. 
Every Bricklayer knows now: how to conftrué 
the Brick-work, and carry the Flues: we fhall 
not inftrué& him in his Bufinefs, but refer him to 
fome one that is already conftructed, and fucceeds 
well, if he be diffident : he will there receive certain 
Information, much better than can be convey’d by 
Figures: but to the Gardener we have a very ef. 
fential Point to explain. / 
Let him erder the Bed to be fomething larger 
I 
The 
) than the. common § Caficins in Proportion to the 
~ | Quantiry .of the Plants ; 
may be aware of it; 
or however little the prefent 
Praétice feems fenfible of it, the giving the Plants 
Room in their Infant-Bed, is the original. 
Principle on which the Largenefs of the Fruit de- 
pends. , 
_ The Stove fhould be built with Glaffes, 
/a Yard and_ half high in -Front; and it 
fhould be two vikte high at. the ,Back. 
’ From the Top behind, to ee Top of the Front 
Glaffes, fhould be catry’d a Covering of Glafs, 
floping + and within is to be the Tan-Bed. 
The Brick-work is a material Article, and we 
refer the Operator for the Conftruétion of this, 
and the Difpofition of the Flues, to the Example 
of fuch as he finds fucceed. 
With Refpect of the Bignefs, it mutt be fuited 
‘to the Quantity of Plants intended to be rais’d. 
A Tan-Pit of thirty Foot long, and feven broad, 
will conveniently hold a hundred: and thé 
| Glafs and Brick- work muft be contrived to fur- 
round and cover it. , , 
~The Stove and Frame being thus fuited to one 
another, and in Readinefs ; ‘he Compoft. for the 
Plant i is ‘next to be confidered. There have. been 
various Kinds employ’d, but the bett is this +, 
_ Mix together one Load of rich light Mould, 
from under the Turf in'a Pafture, half a Load 
of River-Mud, half a Load of rotted Dung 
from an old. Melon-Bed, and two Bubhels of fine 
Pit-Sand, with the ans Quantity of old Cow- 
dung. 
Let thefe be very well united by ftirring ; ; A 
then thrown up in a Ridge, to receive the Influ- 
- ences of the Air. 
“When the Brick-work is dry and Farden’ d, 
: and the Mould and other Ingredients, in. this 
Compoft, are well blended, and enrich’d by frequent 
turning to the Air with a new Surface, all will be 
ready for beginning the Plantation. 
“This is to be made with the Crowns taken fore 
the ripe Fruit, with the Suckers from Plants. in 
our own Stoves, or from Plants brought from 
America. 
The latter Method is uncertain, and. there 
is a plain Objeétion againft it, which there. is 
no Security of having a good Kind. 
The Sugar-loaf Sort whole Leaves are ftreaked 
on the Infide with Purple, or the Montferrat 
Kind, whofe Leaves are entirely purple or brown 
within, are to be prefered to all others. 
_ The Crowns of thefe, when cut in England, 
are always ready; and as foon ae the Fruit 
is cut; Provifion fhould be made for 
Suckers, by cutting the Leaves of the Plant, 
taking off the Earth from the Surface, put- 
ing in frefh from the Bed of Compoft, and fet- 
ing the Pot up to the Rim in a good Hot- 
Bed.. 
Here it is to be watered every Evening with 
Water that has ftood in the Stove; and Vege- 
tation being thus promoted, when the Stalk. is 
cut away, the Effort of Nature will .all.be,.up- 
on the making Shoots of Suckers, which will ferye 
for the new Plantation. 
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