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their pots with strong rich soil, and to 
supply them rather liberally with liquid 
manure, keeping them in a moist at¬ 
mosphere, and allowing the temperature 
to run up to 85°, till the fruit is fully 
grown, when it is best to remove them 
to a drier and rather more airy situation, 
in order to impart the full flavour to 
the fruit. 
When the fruit is cut from those 
which ripen in summer, the stool or base 
of the plant should be repotted and 
plunged into a brisk heat, where it will 
speedily form several strong shoots or 
suckers, and after allowing these to at¬ 
tain a good size, the strongest should 
be selected and all the others removed; 
the one which remains will make a fruit¬ 
ing plant by the next season, while those 
taken off may be struck and treated as 
successional stock. This method, of re¬ 
taining the roots of the plant which has 
fruited for the support of_ the young 
sucker is of great advantage in hastening 
its progress; and when the removal of 
all the other suckers found on the same 
stool can be effected by Midsummer, the 
remaining one should be again repotted, 
|)lacing it rather low in the pot, that its 
own roots may come in contact with the 
soil, and in a few months it will not be 
known from others that have been grown 
eighteen or twenty months. 
Another mode of growing pines, by 
which fruit of great weight and size 
may be obtained, is to plant out in spring 
strong succession or fruiting plants into a 
pit prepared with a bed of soil, instead of 
potting them; they will then grow enor¬ 
mously, and produce very fine fruit, and 
when 'cut the stools should be trimmed 
over, leaving only one sucker to take the 
place of its parent. The drawback to 
this method, however, is the limited 
number of fruit obtainable from a given 
space, in consequence of the extraordi¬ 
nary size to which the plants attain. It 
is, therefore, only to be recommended 
where a few very fine specimens are pre¬ 
ferred to a more continuous supply of 
moderate fruit. In this as in all other 
modes of cultivating the pine-apple, the 
principal point is to obtain the offsets 
as early in the season as possible (reject¬ 
ing those of the autumn and winter, 
unless it is desired to increase the num¬ 
ber grown), and to encourage them to 
a rapid and vigorous growth in the same 
summer ; for in proportion to their pro¬ 
gress through this stage will be the 
future success in fruiting. Let them be 
grown as quickly as possible, with plenty 
of heat, moisture, and air, and there will 
be no occasion for the old exploded 
tricks of disrooting, stinting, and roast¬ 
ing, once common among growers oi 
the tribe; nor will any of the insect 
pests, so formidable to our ancestors, 
then have an opportunity of establishing 
themselves. 
Like all other matters which have en¬ 
gaged the attention of many minds, there 
are in this different opinions entertained 
of the various modes which may be em¬ 
ployed in their culture, each grower in¬ 
sisting on some little peculiarity, though 
we believe, when their management is 
reduced to a system, few plants are of 
easier culture. The essentials to which 
may be briefly stated as a full supply of 
rich food through the active season, to 
be given in the manner previously 
named, and to forward the assimilation 
of which a high temperature is neces¬ 
sary, both among the leaves and about 
the roots, excess being guarded against 
in both cases, more especially in the 
surface temperature; for unless plenty 
of air is admitted among them, the plants 
become drawn, the leaves are long and 
weakly; instead of the deep green which 
should colour them, they become pale, 
and offer encouragement to the devasta¬ 
tion of insects, through the soft charac¬ 
ter of their tissue. Enervated plants of 
this kind are more troublesome than 
healthy ones, and the result is disappoint¬ 
ment at every step. But let them be 
grown rapidly and strong, and no ordi¬ 
nary circumstance can prevent them be¬ 
coming all that is wished. To keep 
them short and compact they should 
have plenty of light at all times; avoid 
crowding them, or an etiolated growth 
will be the consequence, and in moving 
them from one place to another be care¬ 
ful the foliage is not injured. In winter 
the water which will occasionally lodge 
