The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-07-04

hence the phenomenal size and quality OF
! fruit grown. The five leading varieties
are the smooth Cayenne. Abbaka Golden
Queen, Envile City and the Prince Albert.
the first named being favorite, as leaves;
are devoid of prickers, hence better to
handle The fruit in this section is ALI
grown under cover-in pineries-the sides.
boarded up tight, cover put on with lx2
inch Stats every other space being left
open to admit rain and modified sunlight.
and to keep out cold. Pineries are built
six feet in clear TO enable you to walk up
right inside to care for plants. In quail
. ity there is but little difference in varieties
named, the first having a little less of the
tart flavor than the other four, but all are
most delicious, the usual woody fiber and
core being found almost entirely absent,
SO that lovers of this fruit often eat it
with a spoon, without preparation for ta-
bic, the same as you would a cantaloupe
This fruit grows with US to most aston
ishing SIZE weighing from to u pounds
each. have many reasons to believe the,
pineapple will prove a most splendid sue
cess in all of Florida, and the whole Gulf
region to the westward. Your climate is
all right soil and conditions favorable
and with proper prudence against winter
frosts, there is no earthly reason why the,
pineapple Industry should not prove a per-
feet success, and 1 believe it will The,
experiment is certainly worthy of a Dains-
are large, with no danger of overproduc-
ton, and the labor dignified and pleasant
The five varieties l name are good keep
ers and would stand a shipment of two
or three weeks easily. They are packed in
cases holding 16 10 a apples excelsior be-
ing used TO prevent abrasion. The pine
apple is propagated from slips, suckers.
ana crowns. That is to say, they put out
shoots from the parent stalk close to the,
ground, called suckers, and also from base
OF apple, called slips, as well as from TOP
of apple, call crowns. Another way OF
propagatng is from stools. A stool is a
matured pineapple stalk, the roots, leaves
ana top cut off, apparently d dry stub, re-
sembllng a cabbage-stump, only larger. To
propagate from them you bury the stool
obiiquely in the ground top protruding.
From these stools from ten
TO twenty off-shoots usually
appear. To start a pinery you set
out suckers and Slips in rows both ways.
eighteen by tWenty-fOur inches, leaving
every eighth row vacant for walk and to
a1iqrd room to work plants with the scuf-
Tie hoe, pick fruit etc. Eight to ten thou
sand are grown on an acre. Several ladies
mere are quite large owners and managers
OF p-nery interests. one of whom last sea-
son cleared $4,000 on less than an acre Of
ground. Blood and bone, cotton seed meal.
mulch, stable litter and many other things
are used as food to plants. I am using with
ground up hulls and all, mixed with equal
amount of tobacco dust using the velvet
bean hulls as a mulch. Pines, as a rule
r1pen in June and July, but this depends
on time of setting out plants as they ripen
in all months of the year. The price or fruit
here as to season ranges from 40 cents each
to 81, depending on size and quality. Large
fruit dealers, hotels, restaurants, caterers,
and private families are our best patrons.
A good revenue Is also derived from the
sale of suckers and slips, as the increase
from your plants are enormous, and are Of
ten more profitable than the fruit
The pineapple possesses rare medicinal
properties, and is a sure cure for malaria,
diptherla, dyspepsia, and Is valuable an
tiseptic. An ordinary Spanish pineapple,
canned, will weigh one and half pounds
can and all, while one of ours will fill
five or six of such cans, and the quality
of fruit is not comparable a oil. There are
two things we have to guard against in
pineapple culture, and they are extreme
heat and extreme cold. The tight board
fence around the pinery, and the Stat roof
protects the plants from the burning sun
of summer, but not always so from freez-
ing weather. To afford better protection
from cold L have planted a hill of Florida
velvet beans at every post in pinery and
Will permit vine to climb, and by fall roof
viii have a velVety covering of leaf and
vine 50 dense that frosts will be but little
feared. 1t is an experiment with me- but
have faith in it, and will report results la
ter. If any of your readers want any fur
Their Information on pineapple culture il
they will send postage I will cheerfully re-
ply. Capt, E. A. Wilson.
Orlando Flo