By Thomas Andrew Knight, Esq. 413 



bright days of summer from ten o'clock in the morning to 

 three in the afternoon, or the fruit will ripen with injurious 

 rapidity at that season. For this purpose I employ a net, of 

 the kind I use to cover Cherry trees, doubled. 



The gardener, who has never cultivated Pine Apples in a 

 dry stove, should bear in mind that in giving water he should 

 put as much at once into each pot as will moisten the mould 

 to the bottom of it, and avoid watering very frequently. 



There are in different parts of England enormous heaps of 

 coal dust lying at the tops of the pits of no value whatever, 

 and in situations where Pine Apples might be conveyed 

 within three days to London by water carriage, and I am 

 perfectly confident that these may be raised by the mode of 

 culture recommended in this, and former communications, at 

 less than half the expence now incurred ; and I do not enter- 

 tain the slightest doubt, that as large, and even larger Pine 

 Apples, may be raised without, than with a hot-bed of any 

 kind. Nothing can be more easy than the act of giving a 

 more regular and uniform warmth to the roots than that 

 which can be given by the ever varying heat of a bark bed ; 

 and a sufficiently humid state in the atmosphere of the house 

 may be regularly produced by many different means.* 



Some gardeners however, have, as I have been informed 

 wholly failed in attempts to cultivate Pine Apples without 

 the aid of a bark bed ; and one case of this kind has come 

 within my own observation, In this (and probably in all 

 others) the failure obviously arose from want of sufficient 



* Any person who may be disposed to profit by the foregoing suggestion is at 

 full liberty to inspect my Pine stoves, and shall receive any information, which I 

 can give: and I can with perfect confidence promise him success. 



