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whether this is the same, or a duplicate of a similar 

 picture, once in the possession of Earl Waldegrave, 

 and which, Walpole says, was bequeathed by Mr. 

 London, Rose's apprentice, to the Rev. Mr. Penni- 

 cott, of Thames Ditton, by whom it was given to 

 himself. 



If Rose was sufficiently skilful, or so fortunate, as 

 to ripen a pine apple in England, it became immedi- 

 ately afterwards a lost art, for neither Evelyn, London, 

 Wise, Rea, or Switzer, speak of it as an object of cul- 

 tivation. Soon after Switzer ceased to publish, in 

 1732, its cultivation was successfully attempted in 

 Holland. This was by M. Le Cour (or La Court, as 

 written by Collinson), a wealthy Flemish merchant, 

 who had an excellent garden at Drieoech, near 

 Leyden, of which he published an account in 

 1732, and died in 1737. This garden was visited by 

 Miller and Justice, who speak of its proprietor as one 

 of the greatest encouragers of gardening in his time ; 

 of his having curious walls and hothouses ; and they 

 agree that he was the first person who succeeded in 

 cultivating the pine apple. It was from him, Miller 

 observes, that our gardeners were first supplied, 

 through Sir Matthew Decker, Pine apple plants 

 had been introduced into the Amsterdam gardens 

 long previously, whither some of the plants were 

 brought from the Dutch East India settlements, but 

 more from their colonies at Surinam and Curacoa, in 

 the West Indies. In 1712, the number of pine 



