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and closely set. The pips are small; the fruit dark- 

 coloured, tankered, and long. The flesh is high co- 

 loured, but not very juicy. This kind often fruits 

 untimeously in the pinery ; insomuch, that I have 

 had some plants five years old, and could not get 

 them to start into fruit, until placed a fortnight in 

 the green-house, in order to give them a check ; at 

 the same time I have known others of this sort start 

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

 I do not like this kind. 



8. The Silver striped Pine. 



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 is sufficient in a stock. 

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

 of a weaker growth than the above ; but which I 

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



9. The Havannah. 



I am very much inclined to think that this is the 

 same as that I had from London, by the name of 

 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 the 

 Antigua, or any other kind hitherto introduced into 

 this country. 



