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THE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



I. A Report upon the Varieties of Pine-Apple cultivated in the 

 Garden of the Horticultural Society. By Mr. Donald Munro, 

 F. L. S. Gardener to the Society. 



Read December 7 and 21, 1830, and January 4, 1831. 



In furnishing the first of a series of reports upon the Fruits culti- 

 vated by the Society, I may be permitted to explain that if the Pine- 

 Apple has been selected in preference to kinds more generally 

 useful, this has happened entirely in consequence of the materials 

 relating to that fruit happening to be in the most complete state. 



It would be superfluous to occupy the attention of the Society 

 with a laboured enquiry into the history or introduction of the Pine 

 Apple, to which I could add nothing that has not been stated 

 already in works long before the public. I, therefore, proceed at 

 once to what forms the proper subject of this paper, a Classification 

 and Description of all the Pine-Apples that have fruited in the 

 Society's Garden. 



But in the first place it is proper to mention how the extensive 

 collection of the Society has been brought together. In the year 



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