412 On the Cultivation of the Pine Apple. 



assert that I could without difficulty, in properly constructed 

 stoves, cause crops of Pine Apples to ripen regularly, and 

 without failure, at any appointed period of the year. Some 

 varieties of the Pine Apple appear to me to be capable 

 of acquiring a very high state of perfection under a curvi- 

 linear iron roof in the most unfavourable seasons of the year, 

 and the most excellent fruit of the species in my estimation, 

 which I have ever seen, has been that of the St. Vincent's or 

 Green Olive, in the middle of winter ; and my guests have, 

 in more than one instance, unanimously coincided with me 

 in opinion. 



I have raised as many succession plants as I have wanted 

 (and I have used a very large number comparatively with the 

 extent of my stoves ) by placing my suckers and young plants 

 to take root and grow over the flues between the larger 

 plants ; but crowns and suckers never emit roots more freely, 

 nor afford better plants, than they do when placed in a 

 common hot-bed. 



I often plant suckers without detaching them from the 

 roots and stems of the parent plants, and for the purpose of 

 receiving such roots and long stems, I employ pots which 

 vary in depth from eighteen to twenty-two inches with a cy- 

 lindrical diameter of eleven inches only. Much time is thus 

 gained, for plants thus raised, if properly managed, will afford 

 good fruit at a year old ; and they are capable whilst young 

 of being very closely packed together. 



Under a curvilinear iron roof, it will be necessary to shade 

 the Pine Apple Plants during the first bright days of the 

 spring, or the healthful verdant colour of their leaves will be 

 tarnished ; and also to shade the plants during the long and 



