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Report upon the Varieties of Pine-Apple, 



This Pine was presented to the Society, by Mr. Isaac Oldaker. 

 The fruit weighs from three to four pounds, but is not of much ex- 

 cellence. 



38. Lord Bagot's Seedling Pine. 

 Syn, Lord Bagot's Seedling. Hort. Soc. Cat. No. 10. 



Leaves remarkably short, broad and flat, bluish green and thickly covered with meal. 

 Spines middle sized and rather irregular. Flowers lilac. Fruit bluntly pyramidal, 

 before ripening dark greenish purple and thickly covered with meal ; when ripe pale 

 yellow. Flesh white, opaque and firm, with scarcely any fibre, very juicy and highly fla- 

 voured. Crown small, leaves not numerous. 



39. Blithfield Orange Pine, 



The leaves of this variety bear a striking resemblance to those of the Enville, but 

 differ in being much weaker and less mealy. The fruit is rather broader at the top than 

 in that variety ; the pips are also somewhat larger and less mealy, the colour when ripe 

 bright ochre. Flesh pale yellow, rather soft and melting with a pleasant highly flavoured 

 juice. Crown small, leaves not numerous. 



Presented to the Society with the last, by Mr. Isaac Oldaker. 



40. Black Antigua Pine. 

 Syn, Brown Antigua. Speechly, 2nd Ed. p. 5. 



Black Antigua. NicoVs Gard. Kal. 4th Ed. p. 304. 

 Jagged-leaf Black Antigua. Broohshaws Pom. Brit. 

 Brown Antigua. Hort. Soc. Cat. No. 4. 

 Wortley's West Indian, of some Gardens. 



It is readily distinguished by its leaves, which are very long, narrow and acute, rather 

 spreading, of a clear bluish green, the inner leaves being much tinged with a pale brown, 

 upper surface slightly mealy, lower surface very mealy. Spines large, far apart and re- 

 gular. Flowers purple. Fruit cylindrical, inclining to oval ; before ripening of a dull 

 purple green and thickly covered with meal, when ripe dark ochre. Pips very large and 

 prominent. Scales covering rather more than one third of the pips, and terminating in 

 short blunt points. Flesh pale yellow, slightly fibrous, rather soft and melting, with a 

 pleasant acid, remarkably juicy, sweet and highly flavoured. Crown small, leaves few 



