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Report upon the Varieties of Pine-Apple, 



brown, more particularly in the centre of the plants, they are also somewhat thickly 

 interspersed with silvery specks on the under surface. 



Said to have originated at Fisherwick, the seat of the Hon. F. 

 G. Howard, from a stool of the Globe Pine ; it seems to be an ex- 

 ceedingly worthless variety, having been six years in this collection 

 without having produced a fruit. 



5. Havannah Pine. 

 Syn. Havannah. Speedily s Treatise, 2nd Ed. p. 13. 



Brown Havannah. Brookshaw s Pomona Britannica, t. 43. 



Old King, f 

 Common King, J 

 Ananas semi-serrata, of the French. 

 Lapete Pine Apple, in the Island of St. Vincent. 



Leaves narrow, long and spreading, of a light bluish green, considerably tinged with 

 pale brown, and slightly mealy ; spineless except sometimes, when a few appear near the 

 points. Flowers purple. Fruit cylindrical, sometimes tapering a little to the summit, 

 before ripening dark purple and rather thickly covered with meal ; when ripe of a darkish 

 orange. Pips large, flat and a little depressed in the centre ; scales covering about one 

 third part of the pips, and ending in a long reflexed point. Flesh pale yellow, rather 

 solid and without much fibre, juicy, but neither sweet nor very highly flavoured. Crown 

 large, leaves numerous, long and spreading. 



Origin unknown ; cultivated by Speechly at Welbeck, before 

 the publication of his Treatise : not a favourite with Gardeners by 

 reason of the spreading character of its leaves, nor of such excel- 

 lence as to warrant the introduction of more than a very limited 

 number of plants in any collection. 



Smooth leaved Antigua. 

 Smooth Antigua. 

 Ripley, 

 Ripley's, 



of many English Gardens. 



Hort. Soc. Cat. No. 9. 



