ON THE CULTURE' 



although by many it is considered as too tart. — 

 Sugar is constantly used with this fruit. 



10. Ripley Pine. This is a very large fruity 

 and elegantly formed. At first it is of a dark purple 

 or blackish colour, but as it becomes ripe changes 

 to yellow. The flesh is of a pale yellow, is some- 

 what hard, and less succulent than some of the 

 others. It has long leaves, which are of a dark 

 green, tinged with a deep chocolate colour. The 

 edges of the leaves are very closely and deeply 

 indented. — Some years ago I received a Pine- 

 plant, by the name of the Mocho Pine, which 

 having fruited here, and appearing similar to the 

 foregoing both in the plant and the fruit, I cannot 

 take upon me to affirm that it is a distinct species. 



And here I must beg leave to remark, that 

 although some of the foregoing Pines are so nearly 

 similar as hardly to admit of a descriptive dif- 

 ference, still, to a person well versed in Pines, 

 there are indescribable appearances in the face of 

 the fruit or its quality, the leaves, the form of the 

 plant, or manner of its growing, that stamp a real 

 and visible difference in the various species. 



11. The King Pine. This has grass-green, 

 smooth leaves, and produces a pretty large fruit ; 

 but as its flesh is hard, stringy, and sometimes not 

 well flavoured, it is so little esteemed, that few 

 hot-houses admit more than two or three plants of 

 this kind. 



12. The Silver-striped Pine, from Surinam. 

 This exceeds, in beauty, the whole tribe of varie- 



