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Show How Pineapples Grow. "Most people," mild tho fiulluier, "think pineapples grow on lofty palm trees. They really firira, like pumpkins, pump-kins, on 1 ho ground. pincapplo erop looks rather like a thick fleld of castus Tho fruit lies on tho earth and uhovo Ii rises a tuft of short, stiff leaves Also from Its base great Bwordllko loaves shoot forth In overy direction. Some of theso leaves aro six feet long. Tho pineapple, after thp date Is bald to he tho most profitable profit-able fruit to raise " |