THE 
HORTICULTURAL REGISTER 
July 1st, 1833. 
PART I. 
ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 
HORTICULTURE.— Article I. 
ON THE CULTURE OF SEVERAL TROPICAL FRUITS. 
BY SENEX. 
As you are one of the higher rank of horticulturists, deservedly 
holding one of the most respectable stations in the kingdom, and 
moreover one of those who have pleasure, (and I hope profit,) in dif¬ 
fusing the knowledge of superior gardening, by the publication of a 
cheap and well conducted periodical, I beg leave to address you on 
a branch of that pleasing occupation, which your abilities and situa¬ 
tion enable you to prosecute on a more extensive scale than most of 
your brethren have either the power or the opportunity. Such at¬ 
tempts as I am about to recommend, can only be made by those who 
have equal facilities with yourself for carrying any plan of the sort 
into execution ; and I doubt not, you will as readily take a hint from 
a gratuitous adviser, as you will have real pleasure in the event of 
success. 
The important results of modern gardening, as exemplified in the 
perfect maturation of tropical fruit, particularly the pine-apple, na¬ 
turally suggest the enquiry, whether any other fine fruit of those la¬ 
titudes can be brought to some degree of perfection, in the improved 
buildings erected for such a purpose. That such desirable fruits are 
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