THE PINE-APPLE. 



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swelling well during that season; leaves long, 

 rather upright, slightly marbled with purple ; 

 crown of medium size; altogether a handsome 

 fruit. Synonym — A nson's. 



Providence, new. — Size of spines small; form 

 of the fruit oblong, sometimes rather conical, 

 and often irregular, particularly when topped 

 with many small useless crowns, growing closely 

 together in a cock's-comb form ; colour of the 

 flowers dark purple; average weight of fruit 

 from 7 to 12 lb. ; quality third-rate, but grown 

 pretty extensively on account of its large size; 

 leaves broad, thick, somewhat spreading, marbled 

 with purplish shades; seldom producing above 

 one or two suckers on the stem. Synonyms— 

 White Providence, Mealy-leaved Providence, Wool- 

 aton green Providence, Woolaton Providence. 



Queen. — Size of the spines large; form of fruit 

 cylindrical; colour of the flowers lilac ; average 

 weight of the fruit 3 to 6 lb.; quality excellent; 

 one of the best and most useful of all pines, and 

 in very general cultivation ; leaves short and 

 stout. There are several inferior varieties of 

 Queens grown which ought to be expelled from 

 gardens. Synonyms — Broad-leaved Queen, Com- 

 mon queen. 



Queen, Antigua. — Size of spines large ; form 

 of fruit cylindrical ; colour of the flowers dark 

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

 quality good; pips large and flat; apt to produce 

 secondary suckers or gills at the base of the 

 fruit. Synonyms — Yellovj Caraile, Black Car- 

 aile, Lord Effingham's. 



Queen, Moscow. — Size of spines large ; form of 

 fruit cylindrical; colour of the flowers lilac; 

 average weight of fruit 3 to 6 lb. ; quality ex- 

 cellent; leaves short, stout, marked with slight 

 traces of longitudinal lines on their back near 

 their base ; plant apt to send up many suckers; 

 an excellent and useful pine, and from its small 

 size well adapted for low-pit culture. 



Queen, Lemon. — Size of spines medium; form 

 of fruit cylindrical ; colour of flowers lilac ; aver- 

 age weight of fruit 4 to 7 lb. ; quality good, but 

 inferior to the Common queen. Synonyms — 

 Ripley's new queen, Lemon-coloured Barbadoes, 

 White Barbadoes, Barbadoes queen. 



Ripley. — Size of spines large; form of fruit 

 roundish ; colour of the flowers purple ; average 

 weight of fruit 3 to 5 lb. ; quality excellent. 

 Synonyms — Heaton House, Montserrat, Old Rip- 

 ley, Ripley's. 



St Vincent's. — Size of spines medium ; form of 

 fruit pyramidal ; colour of the flowers purple ; 

 average weight of fruit 3 to 5 lb. ; quality excel- 

 lent ; valuable for ripening during winter, as the 

 fruit seeds well at that season. Synonyms — 

 Green olive, St Thomas's, Stubton seedling, Green 

 St Vincent's, Bahama sugar-loaf . 



Sierra Leone. — Size of spines medium; form 

 of fruit cylindrical; colour of the flowers pur- 

 ple; average weight of the fruit 4 to 6 lb.; qua- 

 lity excellent. 



Sugar-loaf, brown-leaved. — Size of spines me- 

 dium ; form of fruit cylindrical ; colour of 

 flowers lilac ; average weight of fruit 4 to 6 lb. ; 

 quality excellent; leaves long, brittle, tinged 

 with brown. Synonyms — Antigua sugar-loaf, 

 Striped brown sugar-loaf, Mocho. 

 VOL. II. 



Sugar-loaf, orange. — Size of spines small ; 

 form of fruit cylindrical ; colour of the flowers 

 palish purple; average weight of fruit 3 to 5 lb.; 

 quality excellent. 



Sugar-loaf , striped. — Size of spines large ; form 

 of fruit cylindrical ; colour of the flowers lilac ; 

 average weight of the fruit 3 to 5 lb. ; quality 

 good; leaves striped with purple lines. Syno- 

 nyms — Green sugar-loaf, Green striped sugar-loaf, 

 Brown striped sugar-loaf, Purple-striped queen, 

 Prickly striped sugar-loaf, Bird's-eye Bahama, 

 White sugar-loaf of some. 



Trinidad. — Size of spines medium; form of 

 fruit cylindrical; colour of flowers lilac; aver- 

 age weight of fruit 8 to 12 lb. In Trinidad 

 it is said to attain the weight of 26 lb. A very 

 large showy fruit, but of very inferior flavour. 

 Synonym — Pitch lake. 



The following varieties are of more recent 

 date than those described above ; viz. — 



Smooth and Prickly Cayennes. — The first has 

 few or no spines on the leaves; fruit large, 

 cylindrical; average weight 4 to 8 lb.; flavour 

 excellent ; of rapid growth, and comes early into 

 a fruiting state, swelling its fruit well during 

 winter. The second has much the same ap- 

 pearance, excepting in being furnished with 

 spines, and possesses most of the properties of 

 the other, except in flavour, in which it is con- 

 siderably inferior. 



Prince Albert. — Much in the way of the En- 

 ville, from which we believe it to be a seedling 

 variety, superior, however, to it in swelling its 

 fruit better during winter. A large and showy 

 fruit. 



Black Prince. — Fruit cylindrical; pips many, 

 but with us not particularly well swelled; fla- 

 vour inferior, although a handsome well-shaped 

 fruit. 



Comte de Paris. — One of several varieties of 

 the Queen pine originated in France within 

 these few years. Like the rest of its section, its 

 merits depend on its cultivation. 



Diseases and insects. — The pine may be said 

 to be exempt from the former, and the latter 

 are few in number compared with those of other 

 fruit-bearing plants; and of these the Coccus 

 bromelia Bouche (the pine-apple scale), and the 

 Coccus adonidum Linn, (the mealy bug), are the 

 most formidable. They are both too well 

 known to require description. The remedies 

 proposed for their destruction are many. The 

 following, however, if properly applied, are the 

 most effectual : 2 lb. of sulphur, 2 lb. soft-soap, 

 4 lb. of tobacco, 2 oz. nux vomica, 1 oz. camphor 

 dissolved in a wine-glass of spirit of turpentine, 

 boiled together in 8 gallons of soft water for 

 the space of one hour, and when the liquid has 

 fallen to 120° of heat, not lower, immerse each 

 plant separately in it, roots and all, having pre- 

 viously shaken the soil entirely from them. 

 After the plants have somewhat dried, re-pot 

 them in fresh soil, and re-plunge them in en- 

 tirely new fermenting material. The pit in 

 which they are to be placed should have been 

 previously emptied of any material in which they 

 formerly had grown, and the walls have been 

 whitewashed at least twice with caustic lime, 

 the woodwork repainted; and previous to the 



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