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PINE APPLE. 



grown, the fruit sometimes weigh five pounds ; but a 

 pound and a half less is nearer the average. This 

 sort does not readily produce suckers ; the crowns 

 should therefore be carefully preserved ; and though 

 these do not fruit so early as suckers, they make 

 much stronger plants. 



8. Enville P. — This fine variety originated at En- 

 Yille, a seat of Earl Stamford's, in Staffordshire. It 

 was unknown to Speechley, as it is not noticed in 

 his treatise. The leaves are large, and mealy ; spines 

 not so strong as some others. The fruit are large, 

 being of a handsome oval shape, a little flattened at 

 top. The pips are large, and not so flat as those of 

 the Antigua. Colour when ripe, orange ; the pulp 

 yellowish, very melting, juicy, and highly-flavoured. 

 Average weight between three and four pounds. 



This is certainly one of our best pines, but it 

 requires a high temperature, and twelve months 

 longer time to bring it to perfection. It has also 

 the property of keeping good a week or ten days 

 after it is cut, and much longer if kept on the plant 

 in a cool part of the stove. There is another called 

 the new Enville, of which the writer knows nothing 

 but from report ; the fruit is said to be larger. 



9. Silver Striped-leaved P, — This and another 

 called the striped Surinam, are cultivated more for 

 curiosity or ornament, than for their value as fruit 

 plants. 



The foregoing are the pines which the author has 

 cultivated (except the Surinam), and which he can 

 recommend according to the description given of 



