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The Queen pine, including the forms Golden Queen, Egyptian 

 Queen, Red and Green Ripleys, Jamaica Ripley. Ananassa ovalis of 

 Millers dictionary has short bluish green leaves armed with distant 

 strong thorns and a yellow fruit, ovoid in outline. Weight 3 

 to 8 lbs. 



I he 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 to be referred here I believe. It is 

 a medium sized pine with often reddish leaves and dull red fruit 

 cylindric in outline and nut 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 pyramidal is 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 Abbacaxi 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 Montscrrat pine, (A. viridis Miller's dictionary) has a pyra- 

 midal 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. 



The Mauritius pine is very well known in the Straits. It has 

 narrow leaves of a distinct reddish colour, and very small bright 

 vellow cylindric fruit usually about 4 to 6 inches long, the flesh is 

 rather firm and yellow, and of exceptionally delicate flavour, too 

 small for ordinary tinning but considered the best eating pine here. 

 It is perhaps what Miller calls Ananassa serotina the St. Vincent 

 or Green olive pine. 



The Spineless Guatemala pine is described by Mr. J. C. HARVEY 

 of Mexico who sent suckers of it to the Botanic Gardens, Singa- 

 pore, as having smooth leaves without spines. A smooth not 

 shouldered nor conical fruit, weighing about 7 lbs., the flesh almost 

 white. He recommends it as a high class fruit. 



Among ornamental and curious pines the variegated pine with 

 leaves marked with red and white and a bright red fruit, is well 

 known in gardens. The fruit which is very handsome is usually 

 rather poor in flavour. A very ornamental kind has reddish green 

 leaves and a. crimson red fruit, very showy but poor eating. 



