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THE EFFECT OF FERTILIZERS ON THE GROWTH OF 
PINEAPPLES. 
By Carlton C. James, 
bibliography. 
In reviewing the literature with a view to finding out what 
had previously been done along this line, it was noticed that the 
bibliography of the pineapple plant is short and confined almost 
entirely to the reports of experimental stations and brief technical 
articles concerning the analysis of pineapple fruit. These articles 
are scattered and in some cases difficult to obtain. It will readily 
be seen that this bibliography is not complete, but represents the 
articles and publications to which we have had access and which 
have been consulted. The papers bearing directly upon the effect 
of manures and fertilizers upon the pineapple number less than 
ten. Among these should be mentioned the bulletins of the 
Florida Agricultural Experiment Station, Porto Rico Experiment 
Stations and the Department of Agriculture and Stock, Queens- 
land. Little, if any, literature is available from the Philippine 
Islands and Straits Settlements, although it is well known that 
extensive pineapple operations are carried on there. 
Curiously enough while dilatory experiments have been made 
in Hawaii from time to time, results were either not obtained or 
else were not deemed worthy of publication, for local literature 
upon the subject is decidedly meagre. It should be mentioned, 
however, that experiments have been started by the Hawaii Agri- 
cultural Experiment Station, the results of which have not yet 
been published. 
Anauas — Paul Hubert — Paris, 1908. 
Annual Eeport, Department of Public Gardens and Board of Agricul- 
ture, Jamaica, 1900 and 1903. 
Annual Eeport, Hawaiian Experiment Station, 1904-7-9. 
Annual E sport of the Porto Eico Agricultural Experiment Station, 
1906-7-8. 
Bananes et Ananas — Yves Henry — Paris, 1905. 
Chemical Composition of Some Tropical Fruits, Bulletin 87, Bureau of 
Chemistry. 
Experiments with Pineapples, Florida Agricultural Experiment Station, 
Bulletin 27, November, 1894. 
Fruits of Queensland, A. H. Benson, Brisbane, 1906. 
Manganese in some of its relations to the growth of Pineapples, W. P. 
Kelley — Jour. Ind., and Eng. Chemistry Vol. 1, No. 8, p. 533. 
Neuere Untersuchungen uber Ananasfriichte — W. Bonewitz, Chemiker 
/eitung No. 15, 1908. 
Pineapple Culture — Soils — Florida Agricultural Experiment Station, 
Bulletin 68, 1903. 
Pineapple Culture — Varieties, Florida Agricultural Experiment Statioi', 
Bulletin 70, 1904. 
