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spaces allotted to them without indicating at any season of 

 the year a disposition to shew fruit. By subjecting these 

 plants to the influences of the drier atmosphere their exuber- 

 ance of growth was soon checked ; and the production of fruit 

 immediately followed in every season of the year, provided 

 that a sufficiently high temperature was given. 



I have never cultivated the White Providence Pine 

 Apple, because I never thought it worth culture ; nor any 

 of the large varieties, excepting a very few of the Enville ; 

 and I have scarcely ever had a plant which has not fruited 

 within less than twenty months of the period at which the 

 sucker was taken from the parent plant; and the suckers 

 were invariably taken off at the same time with the fruit. 

 The utmost horizontal space which I have ever allowed to 

 any plant has not exceeded twenty-three by twenty-four 

 inches during the latter half of its life, and less than half 

 that space during the preceding part of it, and I, in conse- 

 quence, have never had a Pine Apple which has weighed 

 quite four pounds * But I possess at the present moment 

 succession plants of the greatest excellence, and such as I 

 could cause to bear fruit of very great weight, if I chose to 

 give them age and space ; for comparatively with the age, 

 and spaces allotted to the plants in my fruiting house, the 

 fruit of my older plants is of very large size, and in every re- 

 spect exceedingly perfect. I also obtain a regular succession 

 of produce without having ever many Pine Apples ripe at 

 the same period of the year; and I can venture confidently to 



* Since the above was written, I sent a black Jamaica Pine Apple to the Hor- 

 ticultural Society, the produce of a plant which was some months less than two 

 years old, and which was confined to the space above mentioned, wliich exceeded 

 4| pounds in weight ; but I have had no other quite so heavy. 



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