Category: History - European
A considerable interest has been excited in the Horticultural world by the experiments of T. A. Knight, Esq. on the culture of the PINE APPLE. Our _object_ is to add our efforts to those of that eminent Horticulturist, in promoting the culture of that king of fruits.
_Fruit produced._ Mr. Speechly does not seem to have had a fixed object as to the production of fruit, unless it was to have it good. Some cultivators, as Justice, aim at having...
3. Part 3_General Management._ About the middle of February, he “puts in as much hot dung or horse-litter as will raise the bed about a foot high, and then lays on the tanner’s bark as e...
6. Part 6“Every insect has its proper plant, or tribe of plants, which it naturally requires for its nourishment, and on which it generally lays its eggs, and that on the most concealed...
7. Part 7Plants intended to fruit in the succeeding year, are shifted finally in the August of the year preceding. The plants are again looked over in the February following, and top dre...
8. Part 8“It is a peculiar recommendation of this plan, that the plants reared in frames without fire, the first year seldom or never run to fruit; whereas, on the contrary, when stoves...
2. Part 2The most convenient time to take away the suckers is from the middle of June to the end of the month. Both suckers and crowns must be put in sandy earth in little pots, as in th...
11. Part 11This is the latest printed account of Mr. Knight’s experiments on the Pine Apple. It would be premature to draw any general conclusions in so early a stage of their progress, an...
4. Part 4The culture of the Pine, Mr. Speechly observes, has already been treated of by many persons, who have varied much in the methods they have recommended. Far from meaning to depre...
9. Part 9_General management._ Much the same as that of Mr. Andrews. Mr. Gunter tried to substitute the heat of steam for that of tan, as a bottom heat, but did not succeed. He formed a...
10. Part 10“I had long been much dissatisfied with the manner in which the Pine Apple plant is usually treated, and very much disposed to believe the bark-bed, as Mr. Kent has stated, (_Ho...
1. Part 1A considerable interest has been excited in the Horticultural world by the experiments of T. A. Knight, Esq. on the culture of the PINE APPLE. Our _object_ is to add our efforts...
12. Part 12_Remarks._--All the schemes of improvement detailed in this section, are either of a nature never to become general, if they do succeed, as that of Count Zuboff; or not yet suff...