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FRUIT GARDEN. 



the hot-water pipes. Thus, having the plants 

 close to the glass, supplying them with pure 

 air, moderated in temperature befoi'e it reaches 

 them, an equable and moderate bottom heat, 

 and the plants being kept constantly in a grow- 

 ing state, constitute the sum of Mr Hewitt's 

 practice. 



SELECT LIST. 



A very excellent classification of pines was 

 drawn up, by order of the London Horticultural 

 Society, by the late Mr Munro, and published 

 vol. i., part 2, second series of their Transactions. 

 As many of the sorts there enumerated are not 

 now considered deserving of cultivation, and as 

 some new and superior sorts have since appear- 

 ed, we do not think it worth further reference. 



To show, however, how varieties have multi- 

 plied, we may observe that Taylor, in his 

 " Treatise on the Ananas," published 1769, 

 describes five sorts; Philip Miller, in 1737, 

 describes the same number; Speechley, in 1796, 

 fourteen; Nicol, in 1822, ten; G. Lindley, in 

 1831, thirty-seven; Rogers, in 1834, nine ; the 

 "Encyclopaedia of Gardening," 1835, eleven; 

 the Systematic Table of Mr Munro, fifty-two. 



Anson 's queen. — Spines medium size; form of 

 the fruit cylindrical ; colour of the flowers 

 purple ; average weight of fruit 4 to 5 lb. ; 

 quality second-rate. Synonym — Lemon An- 

 tigua. 



A ntigua, black. — Spines lai'ge ; form of the 

 fruit cylindrical ; colour of the flowers lilac ; 

 average weight of fruit L to 7 lb. ; quality 

 excellent; flesh pale yellow; should be cut just 

 on the point of chauging from a green to a 

 yellow colour, at which period it abounds with 

 a quick lively juice of exquisite flavour; leaves 

 rather narrow, long, of a dark green colour, 

 tinged with a purplish brown. Synonyms — • 

 Jagged-leaved Antigua, Brown Antigua, Wort- 

 ley's West Indian. 



Smooth-leaved Antigua. — Spines none ; form 

 of the fruit roundish; colour of the flowers pale 

 lilac ; average weight of fruit 5 to 6 lb. ; quality 

 second-rate. Both this and the last apt to throw 

 out gills or secondary suckers at the base of the 

 fruit. Leaves palish green, exceedingly brittle ; 

 colour of the fruit palish yellow; should be cut 

 before it becomes too ripe. Synonyms — Green 

 Antigua, Smooth green Havannah of some, from 

 which it is totally different. 



Blood. — Spines very large and distant ; form 

 of the fruit cylindrical ; colour of the flowers 

 lilac ; average weight of fruit 4 to 5 lb. ; quality 

 inferior, its singularity only warranting it a place 

 in large collections ; colour of the fruit dark 

 blood; flesh palish yellow. Synonyms — Blood- 

 red, Claret. 



Buck's seedling. — Spines medium; form of the 

 fruit pyramidal; colour of the flowers lilac; 

 average weight of fruit 6 to 8 lb. ; quality 

 second-rate. 



Bemerara. — Size of the spines small, thickly 

 set ; form of the fruit roundish ; colour of the 

 flowers lilac ; average weight 4 to 6 lb. ; quality 

 good. Synonyms — New Bemerara, Harrison's 

 new. 



Enville.— Size of the spines medium; form of 



the fruit pyramidal; colour of the flowers lilac ; 

 average weight 5 to 8 lb. ; quality good during 

 summer and autumn, apt to become dry and 

 stringy during winter and spring ; not adapted 

 for winter or spring ripening. Leaves strong, 

 covered with a slight downy meal on the under 

 side. Of this there are two varieties, the one a 

 well-formed pyramidal fruit with a small crown, 

 the other cock's - comb - shaped, with an im- 

 mense number of very small useless crowns, 

 somewhat in form of a helmet, and hence dis- 

 tinguished by many as the Trooper's helmet, the 

 last a very inferior variety. Synonyms — Old 

 Enville, Sugar-loaf Enville, CocFs-comb. To 

 these the Spring Grove Enville and New En- 

 ville may be added. 



Globe. — Size of the spines medium; form of 

 the fruit globular ; colour of the flowers lilac ; 

 average weight 4 to 6 lb. ; quality good; fruit 

 apt to decay if not cut when just ripe ; colour of 

 fruit bronzy yellow; leaves very upright, readily 

 distinguished in this respect from all other 

 pines. An excellent summer and autumn fruit. 



Globe, Russian. — Size of the spines large; form 

 of the fruit roundish ; colour of the flowers lilac ; 

 average weight of fruit 4 to 6 lb. ; quality excel- 

 lent as a summer or autumn fruit; less erect in 

 habit than the last. 



Havannah. — Spines none; form of the fruit 

 cylindrical or conical; colour of the flowers 

 purple ; average weight of the fruit 4 to 6 lb. ; 

 quality second-rate ; leaves smooth, palish green, 

 and much spreading; colour of the fruit bronzy 

 yellow ; swells tolerably well during winter. 

 Synonyms — Smooth-leaved Antigua, Ripley, Old 

 king, with neither of which it is identical ; Brown 

 Havannah, nor do we think it different from 

 Smooth Havannah or Green Havannah. 



Jamaica, old.— Size of spines small; form of 

 the fruit oblong ; colour of the flowers purple ; 

 average weight of the fruit 4 to 6 lb.; quality 

 excellent ; one of our very best winter fruiting- 

 pines; leaves somewhat narrow, long, marbled 

 with dullish brown. Synonyms— Black Jamaica, 

 Black Barbadoes, Tawny, St Vincent's sugar- 

 loaf, Copper- coloured, Montserrat of some. 



Jamaica, new. — Size of spines small; form of 

 the fruit pyramidal ; colour of the flowers lilac; 

 average weight of fruit 4 to 6 lb. ; quality during 

 summer excellent, but not adapted for winter 

 ripening. Synonyms — St Kitfs, English globe, 

 Brown A ntigua, New black Jamaica, Montserrat 

 of some. 



Montserrat. — Size of spines medium; form of 

 fruit cylindrical; colour of flowers purple; ave- 

 rage weight of fruit 4 to 7 lb. ; quality excellent 

 for a winter pine, and, like the Old Jamaica, swells 

 its fruit better during winter than most others. 

 Great confusion exists between this and the 

 Black Jamaica, the Montserrat in one part of 

 the kingdom being called the Black Jamaica, 

 and vice versa. Synonyms — Brazil, Red Ripley, 

 New Ripley, Copper, Cape Coast, Bogwarp, Cop- 

 per-coloured Antigua, Cochineal, Indian Creole, 

 Malacca, Red Antigua, Sumatra. 



Otaheite. — Spines medium size; form of fruit 

 somewhat globular, inclining to longish ; colour 

 of the flowers lilac; average weight of fruit 4 

 to 7 lb.; quality excellent as a winter fruit, 



