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LII. Description of a Mode of Cultivating Pines, as practised 

 in the Garden of Mr. Thomas Jenkins-, F. H. S. at the 

 Portman Nursery, New Road, St. Marylebone. By Wil- 

 liam Hooker, Esq. F. H. S. 



Read September 5th, 1820. 



The importance which 1 consider attaches to any mode 

 of cultivating plants which presents to the Horticulturist 

 the means of lessening either the expense or difficulty at- 

 tending the usual practice, has induced me to lay before the 

 Society an account of a method of cultivating Pine Apples, 

 without fire heat, recently adopted with perfect success by 

 our worthy Member, Mr. Jenkin s. The collection of Pine 

 plants in his garden includes, I believe, nearly all those 

 varieties which are most esteemed ; and the greater part 

 of these have ripened their fruit repeatedly, and in abun- 

 dance ; samples of several of which have been exhibited at 

 the Meetings of the Society, and have proved that the 

 general management of the plants is excellent. The plants, 

 however, which are particularly the object of this Paper 

 form but a small portion of the collection, being confined 

 to a single house: and the fruit which has been this day 

 placed on the table of the Society, is some of the first which 

 has been ripened in that house, under what appears to me to 

 be a new and advantageous plan. 



The house is twenty-nine feet long, and is constructed in 

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