802 EXTRACTS. — HORTICULTURE. 
EXTRACTS. 
HORTICULTURAL INTELLIGENCE. 
Varieties of the Pine Apple. — (Continued from page 754.) 31. Black 
Sugar-loaf. The copper-coloured Barbadoes of the Hort. Soc. Cat. No. 25. 
Fruit, same form as other varieties of the sugar-loaf; colour, darki.sh purple, 
slightly mealy before i-ipening; when ripe light orange. Pips rather above mid- 
dle size and flat, sometimes a little depressed in the centre, covered one-third by 
the scales, which end in a very short blunt point Flesh very pale lemon-colour, 
rather stringj', very juicy and sweet, with an agreeable pleasant acid. Crown 
rather large, leaves few, of a purple colour, long and erect. Fruit good in sum- 
mer, but does not swell freely in winter. 
32. Striped-leaved Sugar-loaf. The prickly-leaved Sugar-loaf, of Nicol, 
striped Sugar-loaf of Brookshaw; Green-leaved with purple stripes and spines 
on the edges of Speechley ; Purple striped Queen, Green Sugar-loaf, and Green 
striped Sugar-loaf of the Hort. Soc. Cat. White Sugar-loaf, striped leaved from 
Jamaica, Bird's bye Bahama, and Brown striped Sugar-loaf of some gardens. 
Flowers very pale lilac. Fruit same form as other varieties of the Sugar-loaf, of 
a clear palish green colour, and rather mealy ; when ripe of a bright yellow ; 
weighs from three to four pounds, of considerable excellence. Flesh deep yellow, 
semi-transparent, slightly stringj', very juicy and sweet with a slight aroma, but 
without much acidity. Crown middle-sized, leaves rather numerous, broad, pale 
green, with dark purple stripes. 
33. Trinidad. Pitch lake of some. Leaves keel shaped, very long and 
straggling, broad at the base, and tapering to the top, dull green 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 elongated co- 
nical form, the greatest diameters are twelve and a half inches in height, by five 
and a half 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 foiTn, 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. Leaves reflexed and considerably tinged 
with reddish brown. An excellent, and very large growing pine. 
34. Bucks Seedling. This resembles the Trinidad, except that the leaves 
are not so robust, considerably paler, more mealy, and entirely free from any 
tinge of brown or red. nor the spines so strong and irregular. The fruit before 
ripe paler and more mealy, scales much longer, and of a dull whiti.sh grey co- 
lour. Flesh somewhat paler, richer and more highly flavoured juice. 
