THE PINE APPLE. 



ocean, or like that caused by the surging billows as they toss 

 about among the rocks, 



'• The loud wind through the forest wakes 

 With sounds Hke ocean roaring, wild and deep, 

 And in yon gloomy Pines strange music makes. 

 Like symphonies unearthly, heard in sleep ; 

 The sobbing waters wash their waves and weep. 

 Where moans the blast its dreary path along, 

 The bending Firs a mournful cadence keep." — Drummond. 



Thus daring is the Pine, attaining some eighty feet in height, 

 and taking for its starting-point the loftiest elevations where 

 vegetation may be found. Again, when the " lords of the 

 creation " wish to plough the main, they cut down Chaucer's 

 " sailing Firre," and Spenser's " sayling Pine," and Browne's 



" Pine, with whom men through the ocean venture," 



to effect their design. Hart, translating Statius, calls the Pine 

 itself, 



" The adventurous Fir, that sails the vas't profound." 



So daring is this tree that it braves both the winds of heaven, 

 and the raging waters of the deep abyss of ocean. 



THE PINE APPLE {Bromelia Ananas).— Yoxs ARE 

 Perfect. 



The Pine Apple has not been known to us much more 

 than a century and a half It is decidedly the first fruit in 

 the world. Surrounded by handsome leaves, it resembles an 



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