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1845. In order to improve the cultivation, some 

 thousand offsets of the most approved sorts were sent 

 over to the West Indies last year from this country, 

 and several parties well versed in the cultivation of this 

 fruit have proceeded thither to turn that knowledge 

 to a profit. 



The taste for the fruit is becoming more excited in 

 this country, and now that glass is so reduced in 

 price, and better information concerning pine culture 

 is diffused, we expect to see it much more generally 

 pursued. 



The pine apple has never been so generally culti- 

 vated in this country as it might have been, from an 

 idea that its culture is attended with more difficulty 

 and expense than that of any other fruit ; and, also, 

 from the circumstance of the great number of gar- 

 deners being ignorant of its cultivation. "With respect 

 to the difficulty of cultivating this fruit, every gar- 

 dener, who knows any thing about it, knows it is 

 much easier grown and fruited than the cucumber 

 early in spring, or than the melon at any period of 

 the year. In short, with the single difference of requir- 

 ing an artificial temperature, it is as easy, or easier, to 

 grow than a common cabbage. It is not nearly so 

 liable to insects as that plant is in dry seasons ; and 

 of two plantations, the one of crowns or suckers of 

 pines, and the other of seedling cabbages, we may 

 venture to assert, that more of the former will perfect 



