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XXXIII. On the Culture of Pine-apples . An extraB of a 
Letter from William Baftard, Efq. of Kitley in Devon- 
ihire, to Samuel Mufgrave, M. D. F. R. S. dated 
Kitley, March 15, 1777. Communicated to the Society 
by Dr. Mufgrave. 
Read June » 9 >T 3 EFORE I enter into the particulars of 
railing pine-apples in water, it will be 
mecefiary to tell you that my hot-houfe is covered with 
the belt crown-glafs, which I apprehend gives more 
heat than the common fort of green glafs generally ufed 
for hot-houfes. In the front part of the houfe, and in- 
deed any where ih the lowelt parts of it, the pine-apple 
plants will not thrive well in water. The way in which I 
treat them is as follows. I place a lhelf near the high eft 
part of the back wall, fo that the pine-plants may hand 
without abfolutely touching the glafs, but as near it as 
can be : on this fhelf I place pans full of water, about 
feven or eight inches deep,; and in thefe pans I put the 
pine-apple plants, growing in the fame pots of earth as 
they are generally planted in to be plunged into the 
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