ON THE CULTURE 



the whole plant is strongly tinged with a fiery red, 

 which gives it a gay and most beautiful appearance. 



There are two or three other varieties of varie- 

 gated Pines, but less deserving of notice than the 

 former. Likewise a more extensive variety in com- 

 mon cultivation ; but I judged it expedient to de- 

 scribe no other than the sorts now growing in Wel- 

 beck garden, and of which I had tasted the fruit 

 myself. 



There are Pines which go by the names of the 

 Barbadoes, Tobago, Dominica, and all the rest of 

 the West India islands. These are frequently one 

 and the same kind ; and so long as we call them 

 by the names of the places from whence they 

 come, we shall ever be liable to confusion. — The 

 Duke of Portland has frequently received Pine- 

 plants from different and remote parts of the West 

 Indies, in no one characteristic of which I could 

 perceive the least distinction. 



I have heard it asserted that there are Pines with 

 green, and have been assured that there are others 

 with red flesh ; but I must confess that I have 

 never seen one of either, that, to my apprehension, 

 could properly be so distinguished. The fruit of the 

 Queen Pine is often cut when green, (just on the 

 point of changing yellow,) and in the hot months 

 this method is judicious ; but I cannot think that 

 this entitles the kind to be called the Green Pine. 



In the year 1771 > I brought a Pine-plant from 

 Holland, by the name of the Red-fleshed Pine. 

 The gentleman in whose possession it was, assured 



