The different modes of cultivating the pine-apple / From its first introduction into Europe to the late improvements of T.A. Knight, esq.

BY A MEMBER OF THE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY.
WITH Twenty-four Engravings on Wood, EXHIBITING THE BEST PLANS OF PINE-STOVES AND PITS.
LONDON:
PRINTED FOR LONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORME, AND BROWN, PATERNOSTER-ROW. 1822.
London: Printed by A. & R. Spottiswoode, New-Street-Square.

A considerable interest has been excited in the Horticultural world by the experiments of T. A. Knight, Esq. on the culture of the Pine Apple. Our object is to add our efforts to those of that eminent Horticulturist, in promoting the culture of that king of fruits.
The means which we consider as most likely to attain our object, is the bringing together accounts of all the different modes of treating that Plant, which have hitherto been adopted in Europe; and the sources from which we have drawn the means, are the different publications which have appeared on the Pine Apple, and our own observations on its management, by those Gardeners who are its most successful cultivators.

The British publications which treat exclusively, or principally, of the Pine Apple, are:
1767. John Giles , of Lewisham. A Method of raising Pines and Melons, 8vo.
1769. Adam Taylor , Gardener at Devizes, in Wiltshire. A Treatise on the Ananas and on Melons, 8vo.