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The Charlotte Rothschild is a well rounded pine of quality resem- 

 bling the Smooth Cayenne, its green crown prettily fringed with fine 

 reddish spines. 



The Enville or Enville City is a medium size, excellent quality* 

 and distinguished by having a mass of little crownlets instead of a 

 single crown at the top. I have shipped so few of the Rothschild and 

 Enville that I am unable to express an opinion as to their carrying 

 qualities. 



The Golden Queen is excellent in quality and for home use. A 

 poor shipper however, and like the Sugar Loaf very subject to fi Black 

 Heart". 



The Egyptian Queen was at one time the favourite "fancy" Pine in 

 Florida. It was originally the Cleopatra, its present and better known 

 name evidently the result of a rather shaky knowledge of Egyptian 

 history. It no longer holds its high place in the esteem of planters 

 which it once occupied. It is in every way inferior to our Ripley. 



The Smooth Cayenne, everything considered, is to my mind the 

 pine par excellence. Its large size, perfect form, excellent flavour and 

 beautiful appearance make it the King of Pines. It originated, I be- 

 lieve, in the I- uglish H( t Houses, later was grown in the Azores under 

 glass, but without heat, then carried to Florida where it is the most 

 popular and most profitable variety grown under shelter, and is now 

 being successfully cultivated in Jamaica I must say I have seen 

 specimens here equal in every way to any I have ever seen elsewhere. 

 It is specially valuable for the English markets where size and beauty 

 of appearance count for even more than flavour. 



I should 1 e " carrying coals to Newcastle" to describe our famous 

 Ripley before a Jamaican audience. Strange to say it was a failure in 

 Florida — ior what reason I do not know — and I hardly recognised it 

 when I came here. In the quality which pleases the palate I con- 

 sidered it ranks above the Cayenne Surely nothing can be finer than 

 our St. Andrew Riplej\ It is also a good shipper I have sent it to 

 all parts of England and had excellent reports as to its condition 

 on arrival. I rank it with the Smooth Cayenne as the first 

 among pines. Its one regrettable feature is its small crown Its 

 warmest admirers have to admit this one weak point. Co u ld we but o-et 

 the size, form and crown of the Cayenne, combined with tne flavour of 

 the Ripley, we should have the ideal, the perfect pin e • anc i i n this 

 connection I must express the deep interest 1 feel in th e 'experiments 

 in crossing these two varietses now being carried on at Hope Seeds 

 have been obtained from this cross, and the young seedlings were 

 thriving when I last saw them. I sincerely trust that the hopes and 

 expectations of the gentlemen who have devoted so muc h time and 

 labour to this work may be amply rewarded in the res u l ts> 



