The different modes of cultivating the pine-apple: From its first introduction into Europe to the late improvements of T.A. Knight, esq. — John Shaqi
The different modes of cultivating the pine-apple: From its first introduction into Europe to the late improvements of T.A. Knight, esq.Loudon, J. C. (John Claudius)
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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.
Loudon, J. C. (John Claudius)
Pineapple
The Foreign publications on the Pine Apple are few, and of little value;
because the Continental Gardeners have never been very successful in its
culture. Professor Thouin and M. Bosc, are the principal French Authors
who have noticed the subject, and this only in general works, such as
Rosier’s Dictionary, &c. Kirchner is almost the only German writer who
has written on this fruit, in his _Practische Anleitung für
Gartenkunst_, published in 1796, and devoted more particularly to the
culture of the Pine and the Grape. Some other foreign tracts on the
subject in the Banksian Library are merely translations from La Cours
chapter on the subject, and from English authors.
The most eminent cultivators of the Pine Apple in England, at the
present time, are, Mr. Thomas Baldwin, Gardener to the Marquis of
Hertford, at Ragley, in Warwickshire; Mr. William Griffin, Gardener to
Samuel Smith, Esq., at Woodhall Park, Hertfordshire; William Townsend
Aiton, Esq. Gardener to the King, at Kensington; Mr. James Andrews,
Commercial Gardener, Lambeth; and Mr. Isaac Oldacre, Gardener to Lady
Banks, at Springrove, Middlesex.
A number of other gardeners might be mentioned, as excelling in the
culture of this fruit; but the above have been first-rate cultivators
for several years.
On the Continent the Pine Apple is cultivated most extensively in
Russia; it occurs but seldom in France or Germany; and only in a few
gardens in Italy. It has happened to us to have visited the principal
Continental Gardens, as well as the English ones alluded to above, and
various others; and we mention this to justify the extension of our
remarks, not only to domestic, but foreign practices; and to account for
our not confining ourselves merely to what is contained in books, but
discussing also the modes of culture actually practised in different
gardens. We shall first notice the introduction of the Pine Apple into
Europe, and next the different varieties in cultivation; we shall then
glance at the Continental practices, and finally detail those of our own
country.
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