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X. Further Observations on the Cultivation of the Pine 

 Apple. By Thomas Andrew Knight, Esq. F. R. S. $c. 

 President. 



Read March 5, 1822. 



The following circumstances, relative to the habits of the 

 Pine Apple plant, appear to me so interesting and singular, 

 that I am induced now to send an account of them to the 

 Horticultural Society ; though I have so recently addressed 

 a communication* upon nearly the same subject. In that 

 communication I mentioned the extraordinary growth of a 

 Pine Apple, which had passed the whole of the last summer 

 and autumn in very low temperature, and which then, in the 

 beginning of November, continued to increase in size, four 

 months having at that time elapsed, since the period of its 

 blossoming. I saw the same fruit in the first week of the last 

 month (February), when it still continued perfectly green, 

 and apparently growing rapidly. Our Member Mr. Mearns, 

 who has had not only the advantages of long and very atten- 

 tive experience, but who has also visited the stoves of a very 

 great number of the most celebrated cultivators of the Pine 

 Apple in different parts of the kingdom, has been to view 

 the fruit above mentioned; and he assures me that he has 

 never seen a Queen Pine Apple growing upon so small u 



• Horticultural Transactions, Vol. iv. page 543. 



