. 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. 1344 PINEAPPLE 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, muck more depends upon proper fertilizing than any other oue operation. Pro
. 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. 1344 PINEAPPLE 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, muck more depends upon proper fertilizing than any other oue operation. Propagation. —This plant is propagated by means of crowns, slips, suckers and rattoons. The crown is the leafy portion of the fruit as found in the market. Just below the fruit small plants form, which are left in the field when the fruit is gathered; these are known as slips. In the axils of the Ivs. buds occur; those that develop near the ground make strong plants in a few months and are known as suckers. A strong plant will mature an "apple" in June and produce 2-5 suckers by the middle of September. Buds which develop from a portion of the plant under ground and form a root sys- tem independent of the parent plant are known as rat- toons. Crowns are not planted extensively, as they re- main on the fruit when marketed. Good .strong suckers are usually employed for planting out. Rattoons are left in the field to replace the plants which have borne a crop, but they are not sufficiently numerous to make a full stand; hence some of the suckers must be left also. Slips require a year longer than suckers to ma- ture a crop. According to Webber, it takes 10-12 years to mature a plant from seed. Plants are raised from seed only for breeding purposes. Preparation of the Land. —It spruce-pine land is pre- pared it is cleared of all stumps, wood, roots and any other organic material, and is plowed deep and leveled off smoothly. The fields are then laid off in beds of 6 or 8
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