. Cyclopedia of American horticulture : comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening; Horticulture; Horticulture; Horticulture. 1344 PINEAPPLE above, and the increasing and decreasing of the amounts may be determined by the progress of the plants. As the average spruce-pine Pineapple land is not suffi- ciently fertile to grow a full crop of Pineapples, much more depends upon proper fertilizing
. Cyclopedia of American horticulture : comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening; Horticulture; Horticulture; Horticulture. 1344 PINEAPPLE above, and the increasing and decreasing of the amounts may be determined by the progress of the plants. As the average spruce-pine Pineapple land is not suffi- ciently fertile to grow a full crop of Pineapples, much more depends upon proper fertilizing than any other one operation. 'VhSf pl-'mt i'Iic,iiM be narro\C enough to permit fertilizing' mimI ]kiiiL' w itii a scuffle hoe without entering the lit-ds. :i^ ' ilit- Ivs. is very detrimental. For lied .'^[.] tin- - me made 18-20 in. apart; for 2U-L'2 iu.; fur I'oilo Ricos 30-30 in. They are usually placed in checks of about the same distances. The methods employed on the Keys are quite different. The land is cleared by cutting off the trees, .shrubs, etc., which are allowed to dry and are then burned. The plants are then set out with a grubbing hoe; they must be set out irregularly, as the rocky soil does not furnish root-hold everywhere. Such fields become exhausted in a few years and have to be abandoned. Tillage.—This operation consists in running over the ground with a scuffle hoe. Where the plantation is set out in beds the handle of the hoe is long enough to per- mit cultivating to the middle withmit the laborer enter- ing the bed. Only about an ineh ef the snrtare soil is agitated, usually immediately after tie leitilizer has been applied. Weeds arc not seme, ex-rptiug in. 1810. The Ou apple. fields that have been cultivated a long time. Under sheds tillage is more frequent and appears to be more necessary. On the Keys no tillage is possible, but tall- growing weeds and such ligneous plants as may spring up ar
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