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XIX. On the Culture of the Pine Apple* In a Letter to 

 William Garfit Ashton, Esq. Secretary to the Cam- 

 bridgeshire Horticultural Society \ By Mr. James Dall, 

 Gardener to the Earl of Hardwicke, F.H.S. at Wim- 

 pole. Communicated by the Cambridgeshire Horticultural 

 Society. 



Read February 20, 1827. 



Sir, 



In presenting you with an account of the treatment of the 

 Pine Apple, for which the Cambridgeshire Horticultural 

 Society's Medal was awarded to me, I must be understood as 

 giving my method of cultivating Pines generally. 



The Black Jamaica Pine Plant, under consideration, was 

 one of a number of suckers taken from their parent plants in 

 the month of June, 1823, and planted into pots of five inches 

 and a half diameter and five inches deep, filled with a com- 

 post of brown loam, leaf mould and sheeps' dung reduced to 

 earth in the proportion of two parts and a half of loam to 

 one of each of the other two materials. This compost is 

 what I use for the growth of Pine plants of all ages. 



As soon as the suckers were potted, the pots were plunged 

 into a bed of tanner's bark, the heat of which at the bottom 

 of the pots was at all times kept between 88° and 100° of 

 Fahrenheit's thermometer. Water was given sparingly 



* This and the following Paper are the communications for which, as well as 

 for his exhibitions, one of the annual Silver Medals presented to the Provincial 

 Horticultural Societies, was awarded by the Cambridgeshire Horticultural Society 

 to Mr. James Dall, for the year 1826, 



