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The Queen pine , including the forms Golden Queen, Egyptian 
Queen, Red and Green Ripleys, Jamaica Ripley. Ananassa waits of 
Millers dictionary has short bluish green leaves armed with distant 
strong thorns and a yellow fruit, ovoid m outline. Weight 3 
to 8 lbs. 
I he Red pine of Miller’s dictionary is either a sub-variety of 
this or is the Red Jamaica Pine known in the West Indies and 
elsewhere, also as the Sam Clarke orGoffe Pine. The pine most 
common in the fields here is to be referred here I believe. It is 
a medium sized pine with often reddish leaves and dull red fruit 
cylindric in outline and not tapering upwards, the flesh white or 
more usually veliow. This field pine is rather flavourless or apt 
to be so when fresh, but develops a good flavour when tinned, and 
is very widely grown for this purpose. 
The Black Jamaica, or Black Spanish has dark green leaves 
shadino- to a blue purple in the centre, with short hooked prickles 
on the'edo'e. The fruit is fairly large dark green with often a 
purple ox blackish tint somewhat pyramidal. 1 his is an excellent 
eating pine, and weighs 4 or 5 lbs. 
The Sugar loaf Ananassa pyramidaiis of Millers dictionary, 
has a conic fruit tapering upwards, bright yellow with yellow flesh. 
It is one of the largest pines, and the big pines weighing from 
14 to 28 lbs generally, 1 believe, belong to this class of pine. It is 
not used for tanning but is a popular and handsome eating kind 
The Ahha'-axi of Brazil is one of the finest flavoured pines but 
seems to be rare in cultivation. The flesh is quite white, with 
hardly a trace of yellow, very soft and juicy. 
The Montserrat pine , (A. viridis Miller’s dictionary) has a pyra- 
midal greenish yellow fruit and the Havannah pine A glaber, Miller, 
is described as having only a few teeth at the tip of the leaf and 
probably belongs to the group of King pines. 
The Mauritius pine is very well known in the Straits. It has 
narrow leaves of a distinct reddish colour, and very small bright 
yellow cylindric fruit usually about 4 to 6 inches long, the flesh is 
rather firm and yellow, and of exceptionally delicate flavour, too 
small for ordinary tinning but considered the best eating pine here. 
It is perhaps what Miller calls Ananassa serotina the St. Vincent 
or Green olive pine. 
The Spineless Guatemala pine is described by Mr. J. C. HARVEY 
of Mexico who sent suckers of it to the Botanic Gardens, Singa- 
pore, as having smooth leaves without spines. A smooth not 
shouldered nor conical fruit, weighing about 7 lbs., the flesh almost 
white. He recommends it as a high class fruit. 
Among ornamental and curious pines the variegated pine with 
leaves marked with red and white and a bright red fruit, is well 
known in gardens. The fruit which is very handsome is usually 
rather poor in flavour. A very ornamental kind has reddish green 
leaves and a crimson red fruit, very showy but poor eating. 
