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the middle of the heap be turned outside, and vice 

 versa, this treatment will bring it into a fit state for 

 the purpose of growing pine apples, and it must not 

 be used until it has undergone that length of time in 

 its preparation, and has acquired a black, decaying 

 state. If white and mouldy, it must be well watered, 

 and left a few weeks longer until its moist decay is 

 established. If leaves are used in place of tan, they 

 will require about the same time and attention to 

 turnings to bring them into a sweet state ; they 

 should also be in a moderately moist state, viz., 

 between the two extremes of wet and dry. {Mills on 

 Pine Apple, 50). 



The pine apple plant succeeds best when the heat 

 in the tan or leaves is so strong as to admit of the 

 pots containing their roots being plunged into it 

 only a few inches, say half their depth ; at which 

 depth the heat should be bewteen 90 and 100 degs.*; 

 and in this heat, supposing it to be moist and sweet, 

 the plants will make great progress if well rooted, 

 and if not, they will make roots very rapidly if in 

 their growing season, viz., from February to the end 

 of October. When the pit has been filled with fresh 

 plants about six or eight weeks, the tan will probably 

 have become somewhat dry within about a foot of its 



* This heat will not raise the temperature of the soil in the 

 pots to more than from 80 to 85 degs. 



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