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XL VI. On the Cultivation of the Pine Apple. In a Letter to 

 the Secretai*y. By Mr. George Warren, Gardener to H. J. 

 Grant, Esq. F. H. S. 



Read October 16, 1832. 



Sir, 



In consequence of the method I pursue in cultivating the Pine 

 Apple having proved unusually successful, I beg to submit through 

 you to the Horticultural Society the following account of my ma- 

 nagement of a crop of 76 plants, none of which produced fruit 

 weighing less than from two to three pounds, many much more ; 

 six which were exhibited at a Meeting of the Swansea and Neath 

 Horticultural Society, amounted to 23 lbs. 8 oz., and one which T 

 forward to you with this communication, weighs four pounds and 

 three quarters. 



In the month of October, 1830, the suckers were taken from the 

 parent plants, potted in small pots and plunged in the tan at the 

 front of my older succession plants. In the month of February, 

 1831, wishing to grow them as large as possible, I had my succes- 

 sion pit, which is 21 feet long by 9 feet wide, filled with fresh oak 

 leaves which I had collected the preceding winter, on the top of 

 which I put a compost of two-thirds light hazel loam from a turfy 

 pasture, and one-third rotten hot-bed manure and leaf mould to the 

 thickness of fourteen inches. In this I planted my Pines fourteen 

 inches apart ; they grew and flourished far surpassing my expecta- 

 tion, so that in the month of October, 1831, my usual potting time, 

 finding the plants doing so well, I resolved to try and fruit them as 

 they then stood instead of potting them as was my usual practice. 

 I at that time began to withhold the watering from the two back 



