Did you know pineappleswere once grown commercially in both the Netherlands and Britain ?
“ European pineapple cultivation was pioneered in the Netherlands . The early success of Dutch agriculturist was a reflexion of the craft monopoly the Netherlands enjoyed in the Caribbean in the figure of the Dutch West India Company , established in 1621 . As a result , plant ancestry could be import directly from the West Indies in the form of seeds , suckers and pennant , from which the first plants were propagated .
Agnes Block is believed to be the first individual to fruit a pineapple in Europe , on her land at Vijerhof near Leiden . Many eminent Dutch growers joined the challenge , let in Jan Commelin , at the Amsterdam Hortus botanical garden between 1688 and 1689 , and Caspar Fagel at his hind end De Leeuwenhorst in Noordwijkerhout . Pieter de la Court , a wealthy cloth merchant at Driehoek near Leiden , organize his own system for maturate pineapples and many British gardeners were sent to his land to learn about his polish techniques .
Dutch methods of pineapple growing became the blueprint for cultivation in Britain , doubtless endorsed after the Glorious Revolution of 1688 cemented Anglo - Dutch recounting . William Bentinck , close consultant of William III , is thought to have embark the entire stock of Caspar Fagel ’s pineapple plant over to Hampton Court in 1692 . The fruits were , however , mature from this stock of mature plant and therefore did not count as British - grown Ananas comosus . Ananas comosus had been ripened in this way before , as commemorated in Hendrik Danckerts ’ painting of 1675 depicting Charles II being present with a pineapple by John Rose , nurseryman to the Duchess of Cleveland . Danckerts ’ painting led to the rough-cut misconception that Rose was the first to grow a ananas in Britain .
THE 18TH CENTURY
The first reliable crop of pineapples in Britain was in fact attain by a Dutch grower , Henry Telende , nurseryman to Matthew Decker , at his seat in Richmond between 1714 and 1716 . Decker commission a painting in 1720 to celebrate this feat and this time the ananas takes pridefulness of place as the sole object of admiration . From this peak on the craze for growing them explicate into a full - blown pineapple mania . The list of gentlemen engaged in this rarefied horticultural activity reads like a who ’s who of Georgian order and admit the poets William Cowper and Alexander Pope and the architect Lord Burlington … ”
It ’s a fascinating clause . Even if you do n’t have a Victorian indoor garden , you canPush the Zone , especially with pineapple plant . They ’re not backbreaking at all .
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