THE PINE-APPLE. 343 
flowers, and oblong fruit of a large size, averaging, when 
well grown, seven pounds weight, and sometimes excecding 
twelve pounds. The color of the fruit is at first brownish- 
gray, but at ripening it becomes of a pale yellow. The 
pulp is yellow, melting, and abounds with quick lively 
juice, but not equal in flavor to some of the other kinds. 
The Trinidad is remarkable for the great size of its 
fruit, which is said to attain sometimes to the weight of 
twenty-six pounds. Its average is stated in the Hort. Cat. 
to be twelve pounds; but we have never seen it above half 
that weight. The spines are middle-sized, the flowers lilac, 
and the fruit pyramidal. Apart from its magnitude, it is, 
like the preceding, only a secondary fruit. 
The following may also be named as good sorts: Bagot’s 
Seedling, Russian Globe, Green King with smooth leaves, 
Striped Queen, Sierra Leone, Brown Sugar-loaf, and 
Orange Sugar-loaf. And three or four more, though of 
inferior quality, may be noticed for their beauty or curi- 
osity, viz, the Blood-red, Otaheite, Scarlet, Welbeck 
Seedling, and the Havana, the fruit of which last keeps 
long, and has sometimes been successfully imported into 
this country from Cuba. 
Structure for growing Pine-apples. —The pine-apple hag 
generally been found to require cultivation for two or three 
years before it perfects its fruit; its culture has, in conse- 
quence, been divided into three periods—propagation, sue- 
eessional preparation, and fruiting; and each of these peri- 
ods has its corresponding structure, viz., the nursing-pit, 
the succession-house or pit, and the fruiting-house. 
The nursing-pit has occasionally assumed a great variety 
of forms, respecting which, however, it is not necessary to 
go into minute detail. For summer use, a large glazed 
frame, placed upon a hotbed of stable litter and tanners’ 
