8 OF THE VARIETIES OF 



11. Black Antigua. The fruit is shaped like the 

 frustrum of a pyramid : leaves of a brownish tinge, 

 and drooping at the extremities, with strong 

 prickles, thinly scattered. The pips of the fruit 

 are large, often an inch over; and it attains a 

 large size, weighing from three to four pounds. It 

 is of a dark colour till it ripens ; very juicy, and 

 high flavoured. 



12. Black Jamaica. The fruit is large, and 

 the plant similar in character and habits to the 

 above. 



13. Providence Pine. There are two varieties^ 

 the white and green ; the fruit is larger than that 

 of any of the kinds cultivated in this country; 

 the form inclining to pyramidical \ the colour, at 

 first, brownish grey, but, when mature, of a pale 

 yellow. The flesh yellow and melting, abounding 

 with quick lively juice. Speedily produced in the 

 gardens at Welbeck, in 1794, a fruit that weighed^ 

 five pounds and a quarter, or eighty-four ounces, 

 and from a plant that was not a large one. Griffin 

 had, in 1803, two plants placed under his care, 

 which fruited in July 1804 ; the fruit of one plant 

 weighing seven pounds two ounces, and the other 

 nine pounds three ounces, avoirdupois. This sort, 

 and the two preceding, require generally three 

 years, and sometimes four or five, to produce their 

 fruit, 



14. Blood-red ; fruit equal in bulk at both ends. 

 Pips of moderate size j colour brick-red j flesh 



