_Fruit produced._ The object, and it is most successfully attained, is to have handsome Pines on the royal table every day in the year; they cannot, of course, be very high-flavoured in the winter and spring months; but appearance, in some cases, is every thing--they look well, the golden hue of the Apple, mimic grandeur of the crown, and the presence of such a rare fruit at an uncommon season, accords well with the pomp and splendour of a royal table. As to flavor, indeed, by the time the desert appears on great occasions, the palate is generally seasoned with wine, and a few drops of alcohol are already transferred to the ventricles of the brain; when that is the case, every fruit has just what flavor it ought to have; for the fine phrensy of a warmed imagination knows no degree of merit but the superlative. CHAP. V. IMPROVEMENTS RECENTLY ATTEMPTED IN THE CULTURE OF THE PINE APPLE. The Pine Apple has never been so generally cultivated in this country as it might have been, from an idea that its culture is attended with more difficulty and expense than that of all other fruits; and, also, from the circumstance of the greater number of gardeners being ignorant of its cultivation. With respect to the difficulty of cultivating this fruit, every gardener, who knows any thing about it, knows it is much easier grown and fruited than the cucumber early in spring, or the melon at any period of the year. In short, with the single difference of requiring an artificial temperature, it is as easy, or easier to grow than a common cabbage:--it is not nearly so liable to insects as that plant is in dry seasons; and of two plantations, the one of crowns or suckers of Pines, and the other of seedling cabbages, we may venture to assert, that more of the former will perfect their fruit than those of the latter will perfect their loaf or head. With respect to the expense of cultivating the Pine Apple, it must be acknowledged that it is greater than that required to cultivate any other fruit; from the length of time requisite to bring it to perfection; the keeping up a high temperature during the winter months, and the unremitting attention required throughout the year. Another source of expense, and in some cases of difficulty, has been the procuring of tan, or other materials, to supply a bottom heat; and the last one that may be mentioned is, that gardeners who undertake to cultivate the Pine Apple, generally are paid a higher remuneration than those who confine themselves to the other fruits.