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Oil painting from the year 1675 - attributed to Hendrick Danckerts . In the painting John Rose in presenting the King the first pineapple grown in Britain. (though it is now suggested that this pineapple was only ripened here.).
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Oil painting from the year 1675 - attributed to HendrickDanckerts. In the painting John Rose in presenting the King the first pineapple grown in Britain. (though it is now suggested that this pineapple was only ripened here.)
Pineapple grown in Sir Matthew Decker's garden at Richmond, Surrey Maker: Netscher, Theodorus; painter; Dutch artist, 1661-1732 1720
The extraordinary Pineapple Summerhouse at Dunmore, Scotland was once flanked by hothouses (1761–1776