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ployed a thermometer, that he might be certain of 

 the temperature he employed ; and to this, Mr. 

 Bradley recommends the barometer and hygrometer 

 to be added, as guides for the gardener. 



In the Fitzwilliam Museum, at Cambridge, is a 

 landscape, by Netcher, in which a pine apple is in- 

 troduced, and this is there stated to be the first 

 fruited in England, and that it was produced at Sir 

 Matthew Decker's ; but if the picture of Eose, before 

 noticed, is correct, this is not strictly in accordance 

 with facts. 



Passing to the other portions of the British Isles, 

 we find that pine apples are said to have been first 

 brought to Dublin by a man of the name of Buller, 

 who, in the reign of Queen Anne (1702 — 1714), set- 

 tled in the vicinity of Dublin, and held an extensive 

 nursery in New-street, where traces remain of it to 

 this day. 



James Justice, Esq., one of the principal clerks of 

 Session in Scotland, first introduced the pine apple 

 into that portion of the kingdom, cultivating it in his 

 garden, at Crichton, near Dalkeith, but where, it is to 

 be regretted, he shortly wasted his fortune by a lavish 

 expenditure on rare plants. He died in 1762. The 

 cultivation of this fruit was now fully established in 

 this country, and we need do little more than enume- 

 rate the various separate treatises that have been pub- 

 ished on the subject. 



