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The Black Antigua, and the Brown or Mottled, I only cultivate a plant or two 
of for the same reason. I have grown the fruit of the Brown Antigua above 9 lbs. 
in weight. 
The Montserrat has pips as flat and large as a copper penny; I only grow a 
plant or two of it. Though a rich fine-flavoured Pine when well grown and 
ripened, it does not maintain its flavour long after being cut, and its colour does 
not recommend it. 
The Russian Globe and Trinidad I have grown to an immense size. They are 
coarse, and will not keep their flavour if not made use of soon after being ripe. 
Being soft and tender they are not good to pack or send to a distance. 
Black Jamaica is a charming winter-swelling Pine, handsome in shape, main¬ 
taining a splendid flavour for some time after being cut or ripe. If well cultivated 
it takes considerably more time to swell and ripen than the Queen. 
Green Olive or St. Vincent is another very good winter variety, although a very 
slow-growing plant, and also a slow-swelling fruit. If the plant is in a vigorous 
healthy state the fruit, though slow in swelling, is sure to finish well; it is plump 
and handsome, weighty according to its size, and of good flavour at all seasons, 
though short and generally from 3 to 4 lbs. I was astonished with a fruit I once 
grew of it, six pips deep, swelling out so plump that it weighed 6|lbs. 
The JEnville, a selected good variety, is a very useful Pine, and swells well at 
all seasons, and if well managed, though a long sugar-loaf kind of fruit, will colour 
well from base to summit, and will keep good a moderate time after being ripe. 
Though generally the weight is from 4 to 7 lbs, I have grown it nearly 10 lbs. in 
weight. What I mean by a well selected good variety is never to save suckers 
from those that produce cockscombs, crowns, or any other deformity or deficiency. 
This is a standing rule with all varieties with me. 
The Smooth Cayenne is certainly not second to any variety. It is a good¬ 
swelling fruit at all seasons of the year, comes a good colour and flavour at all 
times, is solid, crisp, and juicy—that is, if well done—is easy to start into fruit at 
all times, and ought to have a place in every collection of Pine Apples. The 
Smooth Cayenne is not very free in producing suckers ; but when well grown, 
by a little management of the old stools, after the fruit are cut, a good stock may 
always be maintained. It is a weighty solid fruit when well managed, at all 
seasons weighing well in proportion to its size. I have grown it above 
9 lbs. in weight, but, to take the year, and allowing for winter small plants, the 
general run of fruit is in weight from 4 to 8 lbs. There is a spurious variety I 
have seen palmed off on some people which is nothing but the old, worthless, 
Smooth or Green Havannah of olden times, long discarded by the generality of 
Pine-cultivators. I once called on a friend who drew my attention to a rare 
batch of young Smooth Cayennes. He said he had met with a bargain. I told 
him, on seeing them, that it was my opinion that they were nothing but the 
worthless smooth Green Havannah, and thus they proved in time, and were all 
cast to the rubbish-heap. I mention this, as I have seen and been informed 
by others since, that they have fallen into the same error and disappointment. 
Although easily detected by the generality of practical men, such useless rubbish 
is sometimes palmed off on the unwary. 
The Prickly Cayenne, although a handsome Pine, and I have grown it very 
large and heavy, is a coarse fruit. It is apt to ooze out its juices at the base 
almost before it is ripe—is tender, soft, and will keep but a short time after 
being ripe without losing its colour and flavour. It is not worth growing in a 
small collection. I grow only a few plants of it now, but have had some 
exceedingly heavy fruit of it. 
The old Globe is an erect-growing variety, not taking much room when well 
done ; produces a noble globular-shaped fruit, but requires eating as soon as cut, 
for in a few days it gets soft and discoloured. I have grown it from 8 to 9 lbs. in 
weight and truly handsome. 
The Black Prince is another very handsome Pine in colour and shape when 
well grown, but coarse and a bad keeper after being ripe. I have also seen another 
defect in this fruit in some places ; it commences decaying at the base previous 
to being coloured at the summit. I never grew but a plant or two of it. The 
