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plants thus collected amounted to about 200, but, 

 though vigorous, they had not yet been brought to a 

 fruit-bearing state. Mr. Le Cour, says Bradley, who 

 was an eye-witness of these facts, was not discouraged 

 by the ill-success of others. He built various stoves, 

 and adopted different modes of treatment, until he, 

 at length, succeeded in producing and ripening seve- 

 ral hundred pines annually ; and the plants (suckers) 

 increased so fast, that the gardener raised Mr. Brad- 

 ley's wonder by telling him that hundreds were yearly 

 thrown away. Though Mr. Le Cour succeeded in 

 ripening pines, we should not now say anything in 

 commendation of the fruit he produced, since Bradley, 

 speaking of the first, says " they were about four 

 inches long." 



In 1718, the culture of the pine apple was for the 

 first time established in England by Mr. IT. Telencle, 

 gardener to Sir Matthew Decker, at Richmond, in 

 Surrey. In that year Mr. Bradley saw there forty 

 fruiting plants, of which the smallest fruit was four 

 inches and the largest seven inches in length. (Brad- 

 ley s Gen. Treatise of Husbandry and Gardening, i. 

 209.) He planted the suckers in August; they 

 bloomed in April, and the fruit w r as ripe in five 

 months from the time of its first appearing. His 

 pits, built of brickwork, required, for heating, 300 

 bushels of bark, and he employed tepid water in sup- 

 plying the plants with moisture. Mr. Telende em- 



