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5. Fruit with three separate crowns. 



6. „ ,, four, five, six, seven, eight separate crowns. 



7. „ „ thirteen separate crowns. 



8. „ ,, a compound crown. 



This deviation was also observed in a few specimens of the 

 „Puerto Rico". 



9. Fruit flattened and stretched out to a fan, enlarged by 

 a series of crowns more or less continuous. 



A specimen of this type reached a width of 0.5 M., a height 

 of 0.37 M. and a thickness of 0.12 M. For all that the stalk 

 which supported this colossus of 18 pounds had only a diameter 

 of 3 cm. 



The}'' succeeded in isolating 71 crowns from this pine which 

 were planted with a view of making out whether the deviation 

 would be transmitted to the following generation or had to 

 be put down to the unfavourable conditions under which the 

 plants had at the time been transported from Florida. 



It is supposed that, at least in the variety „ Smooth Cayenne", 

 the way of manuring may give rise to the malformations and 

 cause a disease, which they call ,, spike". 



As to the results of these experiments no report has as yet 

 come to my knowledge ^). 



Also Penzig mentions cases of fasciation, bifurcation, and 

 ramification in pine-apples. 



Finally we draw attention to a specimen, sent by Mr. 

 Phaam, Pajoeng near Madjalengka in October 1909. 



The pine was branched at the base only. Main fruit conical, 

 24 cm. long, diameter 8^ cm. at the base. There are 11 small 



1) In the »Second report of the central experimental station of the republic oi 

 Cuba" p. 142, now written in English, .Mr. Cook says: »A large fruit of pine-apple 

 was sent to me which presented an entirely different character from any described 

 in my first paper. It consisted of four fruits on one stetn and joined together in a 

 lateral arrangement, thus giving the appearance of an open fan with spread of about 

 13 inches. Three of these fruits had somewhat reduced crowns, but the fourth was 

 without a crown , 



. . . . The fact that teratological formations are so common in Cuba makes 

 it a most desirable country for research on this very interesting subject.'' 



