24 Report upon the Varieties of Pine- Apple, 



33. Trinidad Pine Apple. 

 Syn. Pitch Lake, of some. 



Leaves keel-shaped, very long and straggling, broad at the base, and tapering regularly 

 to the apex, dull green much tinged with brownish purple, particularly on the spines 

 and inner leaves, under surface very mealy. Spines remarkably irregular and growing 

 in clusters, they are in the middle degree of strength and thickly set. Flowers lilac. 

 Fruit of an elongated conical form, the greatest diameters of which are in the proportion 

 of 12| inches in height, by 5 5 inches in breadth ; before ripening dark olive and lightly 

 covered with meal, when ripe dark orange, and slightly tinged with red on the lower 

 part of the pips, which are large, of a roundish form, and only very slightly angular ; the 

 margins are rather elevated, with their centres depressed, excepting the lower part of the 

 fruit where they are a little prominent. Scales cover about half the pips, and end in 

 lengthened acute points at the lower part of the fruit, but near the summit they are much 

 shorter. Flesh pale yellow, soft, with little fibre, very fragrant and sweet without acidity, 

 very delicate and highly flavoured. Crown very small, contributing, in continuation from 

 the fruit, to give the whole the sharp termination of a regular cone. The leaves are re- 

 flexed and considerably tinged with reddish brown. 



This excellent and truly valuable Pine was presented to the 

 Society by His Excellency the late Sir Ralph Woodford, the 

 then Governor of Trinidad, where it attains an immense size : the 

 largest of those fruited in our Garden weighed six pounds, but it is 

 reported to weigh occasionally twenty-six. 



34. Buck's Seedling Pine. 



This variety greatly resembles the Trinidad, but differs in the following particulars. 

 The leaves are not of so robust growth, they are considerably paler, more mealy, and 

 intirely free from any tinge of brown or red, nor are the spines so strong or irregular. The 

 fruit before ripening is rather paler and more mealy, the scales much longer and of a dull 

 whitish or grey colour. The flesh is also somewhat paler, with a richer and more highly 

 flavoured juice. 



Raised from seed at Elford, and presented to the Society by Mr. 

 William Buck. 



