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THE ELOEIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
successful culture of the Pine Apple, as well as other plants, is a step always 
to be aimed at; and, after it is selected, to preserve it in a healthy condition, 
and always ready in that state to make use of. It is well known that the 
Pine plant will grow very freely in almost any kind of surface turfy soil- 
even in peat earth I have seen plants grow most luxuriantly ; and many years’ 
practical experience has taught me that, though the Pine plant can be grown 
luxuriantly in healthy light soils, their foliage cannot be at all times maintained 
with that* thick, fleshy. Aloe-like substance, or the fruit supported in. its 
swellings to the end, as it can by their cultivation throughout in good holding, 
stiff soil. I beg here to state I select the soil for Pine culture in the long 
Pine-pit at Bicton, the seat of Lady F.olle. 
a Is a round piece of wood fixed at summit, over 
centre of the pit, where the lights on each side meet 
over their bearing. 
B b Are narrow boards fixed with hinges to A, which 
in a moment fall or rise as the lights are moved 
either up or down, in order to prevent either drip or 
di - aught, and of course make a sort of neat finish to 
the span. 
c, End of pit. 
d, Hot-air chamber. 
f, Plunging materials, resting on slate slabs. 
e e, Flow and return pipes the whole way round 
back, front, and ends of hot-air chamber. 
ii h, Flow and return pipes the whole way round 
for command!! g the required atmospheric or top heat, 
i, A copptr perforated pipe to supply humidity, 
j Is a slate shelf for growing French Beans on at 
all seasons of the year, when they cannot be grown 
in the open air. 
o o Are bottom and top valves, in order to regulate 
hot-air chamber or surface atmosj here in a moment, 
either night or day, as circumstances may require. 
days of summer, from some spot on the common, where it is stiff; mowing-off 
with an old scythe the furze, heath, or other coarse vegetation, if it be too 
