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" Among the best known named kinds from various parts of 

 the world are — 



"The Smooth Cayenne or Giant Kew, apparently identical 

 with what is known in some places as the King Pine. It has 

 bright green long and broad leaves without thorns on the edge, 

 or but few, and bright yellowish green cylindric fruit, the 

 bracts often tinged with red. This pine is the one commonly 

 sold in London, being imported from the Azores, and it, or a 

 closely allied form, is cultivated in the fields in the Straits for 

 tinning. Its weight when full sized is 8J pounds. 



" The Queen pine, including the forms Golden Queen, 

 Egyptian Queen, Red and Green Ripleys, Jamaica Ripley. 

 Ananassa ovalis, of Miller's dictionary, has short bluish green 

 leaves aimed with distant strong thorns and a yellow fruit, 

 ovoid in outline. Weight 3 to 8 lbs. 



" The Red Pine, of Miller's dictionary, is either a sub-variety 

 of this, or is the Red Jamaica Pine known in the West Indies 

 and elsewhere, also as the Sam Clarke or Goffe Pine. The 

 pine most common in the fields here is the one referred to here, 

 1 believe. It is a medium sized pine, with often reddish leaves 

 and dull red fruit cylindric in outline and not tapering upwards, 

 the flesh white, or more usually, yellow. This field pine is 

 rather flavourless, or apt to be so when fresh, but develops a 

 good flavour when tinned, and is very widely grown for this 

 purpose. 



" The Black Jamaica or Black Spanish has dark green leaves 

 shading to a blue purple in the centre, with short hooked 

 prickles on the edge. The fruit is fairly large, dark green, with 

 often a purple or blackish tint, somewhat pyramidal. This is 

 an excellent eating pine and weighs 4 or 5 lbs. 



" The Sugar Loaf, Ananassa pyramidalis of Miller's dictionary, 

 has a conic fruit tapering upwards, bright yellow with yellow 

 flesh. It is one of the largest pines, and the big pines, weighing 

 from 14 to 28 lbs. generally, I believe, belong to this class of 

 pine. It is not used for tinning, but is a popular and handsome 

 eating kind. The Abbasaxi of Brazil is one of the finest 

 flavoured pines, but seems to be rare in cultivation. The flesh 

 is quite white, with hardly a trace of yellow, very soft and 



juicy- 



" The Monsterrat Pine, A. viridis Miller's dictionary, has a 

 pyramidal greenish yellow fruit, and the Havannah Pine A. 

 glaber, Miller, is described as having only a few teeth at the tip 

 of the leaf and probably belongs to the group of King pines. 



