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The different modes of cultivating the pine-apple

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The different modes of cultivating the pine-apple

John Claudius Loudon

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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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  1. 1THE DIFFERENT MODES OF CULTIVATING THE PINE-APPLE, FROM ITS FIRST INTRODUCTION INTO EUROPE TO THE LATE IMPROVEMENTS OF T. A. KNIGHT, ESQ.
  2. 2INTRODUCTION.
  3. 3CONTENTS.
  4. 4CHAP. I. OF THE PINE APPLE.
  5. 5CHAP. II. OF THE VARIETIES OF THE PINE APPLE.
  6. 6CHAP. III. FOREIGN MODES OF CULTIVATING THE PINE APPLE.
  7. 7Sect. I. Culture of the Pine Apple by Mr. Le Cour in the beginning of the 18th century, at Drieoeck, near Leyden.
  8. 8Sect. II. Culture of the Pine Apple in Germany.
  9. 9Sect. III. Culture of the Pine Apple in Russia.
  10. 10Sect. IV. Culture of the Pine Apple in France.
  11. 11Sect. V. Culture of the Pine Apple in Italy.
  12. 12Sect. VI. Culture of the Pine Apple in other parts of Europe.
  13. 13CHAP. IV. OF THE DIFFERENT MODES OF CULTIVATING THE PINE APPLE WHICH HAVE BEEN, AND ARE PRACTISED IN BRITAIN BY PRACTICAL GARDENERS.
  14. 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.
  15. 15Sect. II. Of the Culture of the Pine, as given by Phillip Miller in his Gardener’s Dictionary.
  16. 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.
  17. 17Sect. IV. Culture of the Pine Apple, by John Giles, at Lewisham, in Kent, 1767.
  18. 18Sect. V. Culture of the Pine Apple, by Adam Taylor, Gardener at Devizes, in Wiltshire, 1769.

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