16 Report upon the Varieties of Pine- Apple, 



The origin of this Pine was not known to any of the cultivators 

 of that fruit who sent plants of it to the Society ; it is probable 

 that it was raised from seed at Shugborough. It generally weighs 

 from three to five pounds, but is not a sort of much excellence. 



19. Montserrat Pine. 



Syn. Montserrat. i 



\ Hort. Soc. Cat No. 48. 

 Copper. J 



Cape Coast. ib. No. 17. 



Bogwarp. ib. No. 14. 



Red Ripley. No. 72. 



New Ripley. ib. No. 71. 



Copper-coloured Antigua, ib. No. 5. 



Cochineal. ib. No. 21. 



Brazil. No. 15. 



Old King, ^ 

 St.Kitts, I ofsome GardenSt 



Malacca, f 



Sumatra, ) 



Ananas Antigua rubra, of the French. 



Indian Creole, ^ 



St. Vincent's Cockscomb, ) in St Vincent's. 



Chevalier's Sierra Leone, in Sierra Leone. 



Easily distinguished from all other varieties by the dark purple colour of the spines, 

 which are rather small and irregular ; good specimens of it will weigh from three to five 

 pounds. Flowers purple. Fruit cylindrical, sometimes broader at the top and narrow- 

 ing downwards, before ripening, dark green and mealy, afterwards of a pale orange tinged 

 with a copper colour. Pips middle sized and rather flat. Scales covering one half the 

 pips, of a deep red towards the points, which are rather lengthened. Flesh solid, lemon- 

 coloured, semi-transparent, somewhat mealy, juicy and acid, without much flavour or 

 sweetness. Crown rather large, leaves numerous. 



This Pine is pretty generally known in the country under one 



