_Fruit produced._ To ripen eminently large fruit, he directs the removal or destruction of suckers; to retard the progress of fruit that have appeared too early, he shifts in Nicol’s manner; and when fruit is ripening too fast, or too many advancing to a ripe state together, he retards a part of the plants by setting them into a dry airy place, affording both shade and shelter. “Give no water as long as you wish to suspend their progress. For the same purpose, others may be set out green; but whilst the excitement of these is lowered, they must be kept in a growing state.” _Practical Gardener_, 643. SECT. XII. _Culture of the Pine Apple by Mr. James Andrews, commercial gardener, Vauxhall._ Mr. Andrews has been considered the best grower of Pines in the neighbourhood of London for many years; his principal object is to grow fruit for the market; but the demand for the plants by private gardeners, and others, has generally been so great, that he can seldom keep the plants till the last stage of their growth. _Form of House._ Both pits and larger houses are used; but there is nothing particular in the form of either. Mr. Andrews seldom erects new work, but generally purchases old hot-houses and sashes at the sales of decayed gentlemen, or bankrupt tradesmen. In this respect he follows the practice of Mr. Lee of Hammersmith, and both have generally a stock of old sashes and rafters on hand ready to put up when wanted. But though the form of Mr. Andrews’ houses may be said to be in a great degree matter of accident, yet the arrangement of the flues within is his own. These generally enter at the front corner of one end, pass to the opposite end, return along the back wall, where they sometimes serve as a path, and at other times are placed at one side of the path, occasionally a return is made, and the chimney-top is formed in the back wall, at the opposite end to that in which the fire enters; when this is not the case, the smoke passes off by the back wall at the same end. The width of the pit depends on the room left by the flue; to increase it no path is formed at the ends or in front, and that along the back wall does not exceed two feet in width. The depth of the pits is from two feet and a half to three feet deep, and their distance from the glass from four to six feet. Vines are trained up the rafters and over the back path. The sashes in front open in various ways, and air is given by them, and by the sliding sashes of the roof. On the whole, Mr. Andrews’ best houses greatly resemble those of Mr. Gunter, to be described in the following section. In the pits there is nothing uncommon in the construction; they are, in general, sunk deep in the ground, which being dry at bottom, is a great saving of heat. In some the tan is enclosed by brick walls, in others by a frame of wood; some are without flues, but the greater number have a flue in front, or a steam tube, or both.