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ON THE 



CULTURE 



OF THE 



FINE -APPLE, &c. 



BOOK L 



Hot-houses are found by experience to be of so 

 much importance, that no garden is esteemed 

 complete without one. A good hot-house, in- 

 deed, may be considered as a kind of garden itself, 

 as it furnishes both fruit and vegetables much ear- 

 lier in the spring than they could be obtained by 

 any other means : it also affords an opportunity of 

 raising, with great ease, many exotic plants, as well 

 for the use of the table as the ornament of the 

 flower-garden. 



But though the original and principal object of 

 an hot-house consists in bringing the tropical fruit, 

 called the Ananas, or Pine-apple, to a considerable 

 degree of perfection, yet, if properly constructed, 

 it may, at the same time, be equally well adapted 

 to the culture of the Vine. 



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