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The different modes of cultivating the pine-apple
John Claudius Loudon
Raising a ripe pineapple in a cold English garden was once the ultimate gardener's boast. J. C. Loudon gathers the varieties and every known mode of cultivating the pine-apple, including the celebrated methods of earlier masters. A fascinating record of horticultural ambition under glass. Grow the crowning fruit that made hothouse gardeners famous.
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32 chapters
- 1THE DIFFERENT MODES OF CULTIVATING THE PINE-APPLE, FROM ITS FIRST INTRODUCTION INTO EUROPE TO THE LATE IMPROVEMENTS OF T. A. KNIGHT, ESQ.
- 2INTRODUCTION.
- 3CONTENTS.
- 4CHAP. I. OF THE PINE APPLE.
- 5CHAP. II. OF THE VARIETIES OF THE PINE APPLE.
- 6CHAP. III. FOREIGN MODES OF CULTIVATING THE PINE APPLE.
- 7Sect. I. Culture of the Pine Apple by Mr. Le Cour in the beginning of the 18th century, at Drieoeck, near Leyden.
- 8Sect. II. Culture of the Pine Apple in Germany.
- 9Sect. III. Culture of the Pine Apple in Russia.
- 10Sect. IV. Culture of the Pine Apple in France.
- 11Sect. V. Culture of the Pine Apple in Italy.
- 12Sect. VI. Culture of the Pine Apple in other parts of Europe.
- 13CHAP. IV. OF THE DIFFERENT MODES OF CULTIVATING THE PINE APPLE WHICH HAVE BEEN, AND ARE PRACTISED IN BRITAIN BY PRACTICAL GARDENERS.
- 14Sect. I. Mode of cultivating the Pine Apple practised by Mr. Henry Telende, in the Garden of Sir M. Decker, at Richmond, 1719, to 1730, or later.
- 15Sect. II. Of the Culture of the Pine, as given by Phillip Miller in his Gardener’s Dictionary.
- 16Sect. III. Culture of the Pine Apple, by James Justice, Esq. F.R.S. at Crichton, near Edinburgh, in 1732, and for some years afterwards.
- 17Sect. IV. Culture of the Pine Apple, by John Giles, at Lewisham, in Kent, 1767.
- 18Sect. V. Culture of the Pine Apple, by Adam Taylor, Gardener at Devizes, in Wiltshire, 1769.
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