PAXTON’S 
HORTICULTURAL REGISTER, 
APRIL, 1836. 
HORTICULTURE. 
THOUGHTS UPON THE CULTURE OF THE PINE-APPLE. 
BY A Y'OUNG GARDENER. 
I have perused with great interest many papers and treatises upon 
the subject of this plant, and have been led to the conclusion that its 
cultivators, however successful they may be in practice, have not 
cleared up many doubts on the proper treatment of the pine during 
the winter, which suggest themselves to the mind of one who has 
observed the various theories and directions which are now afloat. Let 
any reflecting reader take up the volumes of the Gardener’s Magazine, 
that great repository of horticultural communications during the last 
ten years, and turn to the several articles upon pine culture, including 
the direct opinions expressed by the conductor himself, and he will be 
surprised to see how very contradictory they are. 
In the first volume, page 426,1 find what may perhaps be pronounced 
the best and clearest article on the general culture, from the sucker to 
the fruiting plant, by Mr. Greenshields. The winter temperature of 
the earliest period is directed to be kept from fifty to sixty degrees, 
while in the second winter, when the plants are in the fruiting pots, its 
medium is from sixty to sixty-five degrees. The closing observation is 
the one, however, which requires the greatest attention, because it leads 
to the consideration of that most important question. Should all plants 
— should, the pine-apple in particular —be brought to a state of rest at 
some period of its growth ? ef It may here be observed,” says the 
writer, te that no pine-plant should be checked in its progress, for the 
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