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from the stems. The Hrst-named method is slow and tedious, and 

 seldom adopted except for raising new -varieties. Crowns, or the- 

 tufts that grow on the top of the fruits, make good plants, but they 

 art- usually longer in coming into bearing than suckers. The most 

 expeditious and serviceable, as also the most generally adopted, 

 method of propagation is by suckers. These should be carefully 

 removed from the parent plants when required for planting, or they 

 may be planted in close rows, nursery fashion, and shifted to their 

 permanent places afterwards. Plants may be obtained from short 

 stem cuttings planted just below the surface, but this mode of 

 propagation is only serviceable when a rapid increase of stock is 

 required . 



YARIKTJKS. 



There are many varieties of the Pine-Apple in cultivation, but 

 three or four will be sufficient for all practical purposes. The 

 following list embraces some of the best and most popular sorts : 



Black Antigua (Brown Antigua}. This variety has purple flowers- 

 ami narrow leaves with short rigid spines. Fruit medium-sized,. 

 cylindrical, inclining to oval, pips large and prominent, colour deep, 

 ochre. Flesh pale yellow, slightly fibrous, juicy, and well flavoured, 

 but the fruit should be cut as soon as it beg'ins to colour, as when, 

 allowed to get fully ripe upon the plant it deteriorates. 



Black Jamaica. An excellent, useful, and comparatively hardy 

 variety which ripens its fruit at all seasons. Flowers purple, leaves 

 dark green, narrow, with small spines. Fruit medium-sized, oval,, 

 and somewhat compressed at both base and croAvn, pips medium size,, 

 colour brownish-orange. Flesh pale yellow, firm, slightly stringv,. 

 and very highly flavoured. 



Charlotte Rothschild. An excellent variety with lilac flowers and 

 short, broad, bluish-green leaves with strong spines. Fruit cylindri- 

 cal, very large, being commonly from six to ten pounds in weight, 

 dee]> yellow, pips large and flat. Flesh yellow, tender, juicy, and 

 richly flavoured. 



Enville. A variety with lilac flowers and tall conical fruit six or 

 seven pounds in weight, in colour a reddish-orange, pips medium- 

 sized and pointed. Flesh pale, without much fibre, sweet, and rich,, 

 but scarcely so highly flavoured as the Queen and some other kinds. 



Lemon Queen (Barbadoes Queen).- T\iis variety has large lilac 

 flowers. Fruit cylindrical, medium to large, pale lemon colour, and 

 pips rather above the medium size. Flesh pale yellow, transparent,, 

 juicy, sweet, but not so highly flavoured as some other varieties 



Monsterat (Brazil, A'eir .Ilipletf, St. Vincent's Cockscomb). A purple 

 flowered variety with medium-sized cylindrical orange coloured fruit 

 with a copper tinge. Pips medium size. Flesh solid, lemon coloured, 

 semi-transparent, slightly stringy, juicy, sweet, but also has a 

 sub-acid flavour. 



Providence (White Providence). An old and popular variety with 

 large fruit varying from cylindrical to oval, which often attains ai 



