The gardener's magazine and register of rural & domestic improvement (1826)
Loudon, J. C. (John Claudius), 1783-1843, A. & R. Spottiswoode, printer, United States. Patent Office. Scientific Library, former owner DSI · London : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green · leaf 81
r Stewart, Gardener to Sir RobertPreston, Bart, at Valleyfield, near Gulross, Perthshire. ReadDec. 2. 1823. The culture of the pine-apple, is by no means so well un-derstood in Scotland as in England; the plants are kept in toodry an atmosphere generally, and not allowed sufficient heatand moisture… … to do. He therefore got a pit (fig. 8.) in which he builttwo flues (a, a,) andsupported over thena, onbrick props (c), a floor-ing of pavement, co-vered with a layer ofgravel and sand (d), onwhich to place the pots;at the sides were open-ings {b, b), to admit theheated air from below toto warm the…
