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aiul closely set. The pips arc small ; the fruit daik- 

 coloLired, taiikered, and long. The flesh is higli co- 

 loured, but not very juicy. This kind often fruits 

 untinieously in the pinery; insomuch, tliat I have 

 had some i)lants five years old, and could not get 

 them to start into fruit, until placed a fortnight in 

 the greeil-house, in order to give tliem a check; at 

 the same time I have known others of this sort start 

 into fruit at a year old. Upon tlie whole, therefore, 

 I do not like this kind. 



8. The Silver striped Fine. 

 The leaves of this sort are very beautifully strip- 

 ed green, silver, and red. The pips are large, and 

 when ripe are variegated or marbled red, green and 

 yellow ; the flesh being a pale yellow, and very 

 juicy. This sort is often very long in starting into 

 fruit, and is only worth cultivating on account of its 

 singularity. A few plants are sufficient in a stock. 

 I have met with a gold striped kind in several places, 

 of a weaker growth than the above ; but which 1 

 never met with in fruit, and so cannot describe it. 



9. The Ilavannah, 

 I am very much inclined to think that this is the 

 same as that I had from London, by the name oi' 

 the King Pine, described above. 



10. The New-Providence Pine. 

 This kind I have not seen in fruit ; but am told 

 it grows to an immense size^ much larger than tlie 

 Antigua, or any other kind hitherto introduced into 

 this countrv. 



