OF THE PINE-APPLE. 



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me that its fruit cut as red as any kind of peach at 

 the stone, or as the root of red beet. It fruited in 

 the garden at Welbeck in 1774, but the fruit was very 

 small, cut hard and stringy, and was not in the least 

 red. I therefore suppose that the gentleman who 

 gave it me had never seen the fruit himself. 



After all, however, I by no means take upon me 

 to deny the above assertions ; for though I have 

 never seen any proof of them myself, considering 

 the similar instances of both in other kinds of fruit, 

 viz. the former in the melon, and the latter in the 

 peach, apple, and pear, it would ill become me 

 absolutely to refuse to give them credit. 



On the different Ways of propagating the Pine-apple* 



The Pine is propagated sometimes by seed!,' but 

 generally by crowns and suckers. The seeds are 

 produced in the inside of the protuberances of the 

 fruit, are small, of a dark colour, and in shape not 

 unlike the seed or kernels of the apple or pear. 



The crowns are produced on the top of the fruit, 

 of which there is seldom more than one ; but there 

 are instances of two or more being joined together. 



The suckers are produced in various parts of the 

 plant, but most generally from between the leaves, 

 near the middle of its stem \ and the suckers pro- 

 duced in that part are esteemed the best. The 

 Brown Antigua, the King, and the Sugar-loaf kinds, 

 commonly produce suckers at the top of the stem 

 immediately under the fruit ; but these are gene- 



