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OUT-DOOR CULTURE. 



If Speechlej and other cultivators of the pine at the 

 commencement of the present century could awaken 

 and read the title of this section, they would conclude 

 that it applied to tropical horticulture. But it is not 

 so, for the time has arrived when the gardener can be 

 instructed how to ripen pine apples in the open air, in 

 Devonshire, if not in other southern counties of Eng- 

 land. We have already stated that the Editor and 

 Mr. Barnes, without any interchange of opinions, com- 

 menced experiments, the one in a greenhouse without 

 artificial heat, and the other in the open air, to ascer- 

 tain if the pine apple could be successfully grown and 

 ripened at lower temperatures than it is usually be- 

 lieved to require. Since that statement went to press 

 TVIr. Barnes writes as follows : — 



The fruiting pines turned out into the kitchen gar- 

 den at Bicton, without any glass or covering what- 

 ever, are going on well at this date, June 1 1 th, and 

 with every appearance of having some good fruit. I 

 entertain no doubt, should the weather prove at all 

 favourable, we shall get them of a most excellent co- 

 lour and flavour in the autumn montlis. We have 

 turned out several varieties, but the greater part of 

 them are Queens, "with a plant or two of Black Ja- 

 maica, Montserrat, Enville, Moscow Queen, Anson's 



