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a healthy active state, and free from sudden changes 

 of bottom heat. Mr. Brown gives the following as 

 the results to young plants potted in August. 



Sort. 



Compost. 



Description. 



Globe 



Queen .... 

 W. Providence 

 Queen .... 



All peat .... 

 Sandy peat . . 

 Loamy peat . . 

 Half sand and 

 loam. . . . 



St. Vincent 



Peaty loam . . 



Queen .... 

 St. Vincent 



All peat . . 

 Half sand and 



peat 

 Rich loam 



Grown well ; excellently rooted 

 Strong growth ; excellently rooted 

 Grown well ; and well rooted 



Grown tolerably well ; not very 



well rooted 

 Of fair growth; not very well 



rooted 



Grown well ; excellently rooted 



Grown well ; excellently rooted 



Queen Rich loam . . Excellent growth ; but not so 



well rooted as those in peat 



Queen Sand and lime Scarcely made any growth ; and 



look very yellow. 



(Gard. Chron. 1841, 503, 765.) 



Now this may be, and doubtless is, all perfectly 

 true ; for there is no doubt that, with very assiduous 

 attention to a due temperature, due moisture, and a 

 proper supply of liquid manure, pine apples might 

 be made to grow even in a mass of small shot. But, 

 then, in proportion as the medium employed for them 

 to root in is of a sterile character, must the care at- 

 tendant upon their cultivation be increased. Such 

 extravagancies may be characterised as the art of 

 growing pine apples with the greatest amount of 

 trouble. 



Although it is doubtless true that pine apples can be 



