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LV1I. Account of the Mode of treating Pine Plants, so as to 

 make them produce Fruit within the year. By Peter Mars- 

 land, Esq, F.H.S. 



Read 5th December, 1820. 



Th e success which has attended my mode of treating Pine 

 Plants in my garden at Woodbank, near Stockport, so as to 

 insure the production of fruit within twelve months from the 

 cutting of their previous produce, has been so perfectly 

 satisfactory that I am tempted to lay an account of it before 

 the Society, in the expectation that other cultivators of the 

 Pine Apple may be induced to adopt it. 



The Pines which I had the honour to exhibit to the Society 

 on the Ifth of October last,* had been grown in the manner 

 I am about to describe, and though not of the largest de- 

 scription, yet I believe, that as far as beauty of form and 

 richness of flavour are concerned, they would not yield to 

 fruit of more protracted growth. 



In November 1819, as soon as the fruit had been cut 

 from the Pine Plants, which were then two years old, all the 

 leaves were stripped off the old stocks, nothing being left 

 but a single sucker on each, and that the strongest on the 



* The varieties exhibited were the New Providence and the Globe ; but the 

 Black Antigua and the Enville were also produced in a similar manner, in the 

 present season. Queen Pines produced in the same way were exhibited at a 

 Meeting in the last season, and were noticed in the Transactions, page 52, of this 

 volume. 



