PINE APPLE. 



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them. Were he called to name a collection of these 

 fruits, which would be at once profitably and easily 

 cultivated, he would only mention four, namely, the 

 Queen, Ripley, Sugar Loaf, and Antigua, as com- 

 prising every excellence to be found in this family of 

 plants. For though there may be many varieties, or 

 pretended varieties, advertised in nurserymen's cata- 

 logues, none will be found superior to the above 

 four. 



There are several other pines in cultivation in 

 private gardens, which the author is only acquainted 

 with from report. One called the white Providence 

 is remarkable for the great size of the fruit, which 

 by several cultivators has been grown to the w^eight 

 of from ten to fourteen pounds ! 



Another sort, called the Anson or Otaheitan, is an 

 admitted excellent sort ; and according to the very 

 successful cultivator of it, Mr. M'Murtrie, is an 

 admirable fruit, and deserves to be in every collec- 

 tion. In some catalogues we find both the Anson 

 and the Otaheitan ; thus giving the same fruit a 

 double name,- which can serve no good purpose, and 

 only cause disappointment. 



SECT. XXI. 



OF THE PLU3I. 



The plum is the prunus domestica of botanists, so 

 called in contradistinction to the wild sorts, viz. the 

 sloe and buUace, found in our woods and hedges. 



