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THE
DIFFERENT MODES
OF
CULTIVATING
THE
PINE-APPLE,
FROM
ITS FIRST INTRODUCTION INTO EUROPE
TO THE
LATE IMPROVEMENTS OF T. A. KNIGHT, ESQ.
BY A MEMBER OF THE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY.
WITH
Twenty-four Engravings on Wood,
EXHIBITING THE BEST PLANS OF PINE-STOVES AND PITS.
LONDON:
PRINTED FOR
LONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORME, AND BROWN,
PATERNOSTER-ROW.
1822.
London:
Printed by A. & R. Spottiswoode,
New-Street-Square.
INTRODUCTION.
A considerable interest has been excited inthe Horticultural world by the experimentsof T. A. Knight, Esq. on the culture of thePine Apple. Our object is to add our effortsto those of that eminent Horticulturist, inpromoting the culture of that king of fruits.
The means which we consider as mostlikely to attain our object, is the bringing togetheraccounts of all the different modes oftreating that Plant, which have hitherto beenadopted in Europe; and the sources fromwhich we have drawn the means, are the differentpublications which have appeared onthe Pine Apple, and our own observations onits management, by those Gardeners who areits most successful cultivators.
The British publications which treat exclusively,or principally, of the Pine Apple,are:
1767. John Giles, of Lewisham. A Methodof raising Pines and Melons, 8vo.
1769. Adam Taylor, Gardener at Devizes,in Wiltshire. A Treatise on the Ananas andon Melons, 8vo.
1779. William Speechly, Gardener to theDuke of Portland, at Welbeck, in Nottinghamshire.A Treatise on the culture of thePine Apple, and the management of the Hot-house,&c. 8vo.
1808. William Griffin, Gardener to J. C.Girardot, Esq. at Kelham, near Nottingham.A Treatise on the culture of the Pine Apple,8vo.
1818. Thomas Baldwin, Gardener to theMarquis of Hertford, at Ragley, in Warwickshire.[v]A Treatise on the culture of theAnanas, &c. 12mo.
The Authors who have treated on the PineApple, as a part of their general subject, includenearly all those who have written onHorticulture since the commencement of the18th century; the principal are, Bradley,Miller, Justice, Aberc