HORTIC ULTURAL INTELLIGENCE. 
Varieties of the pine apple. —Continued from volume 1. page 805.— 
46. Ripley’s Queen—This sort differs from the Queen in its leaves being less 
mealy, and of a pale colour, and pips less prominent: it is also rather more 
tender. 
47 Green Queen. —Leaves differ from the Queen, and Ripley’s, in being 
much stronger, rather less mealy, and often having some parts of their margins 
destitute of spines. Fruit generally larger, pips more prominent than either of 
the before mentioned varieties, but fruit is equal in point of flavour. 
48 Moscow Queen. —The leaves differ from the other varieties of Queen in 
being furrowed, and in the veins on the under surface being entirely destitute of 
mealiness,thereby causing it to have a striped appearance. It is an excellent and 
highly flavoured fruit of the same size as the Queen. 
49. Striped Queen. —Striped leaved Olive, Hort.Soc. Cat. No. 68. This 
diflersfrom the Queen in its leaves being striped with a pale greenish yellow, and 
a little tinged with a fiery red, the fruit is also a little variegated, and of the 
same quality as the Queen, but seldom swells so freely as that variety. 
50. Silver Striped Queen. —The Gold striped of Speechley 2nd edition, 
The leaves of this variety differ from the striped green in the margins being 
striped, whilst those of the striped Queen are uniformly green; they are also 
broader, less tinged with red, and the stripes considerably paler than that variety. 
Although both plant and fruit are of greater beauty than the striped Queen, yet 
they are of much less excellence. 
51. Antigua Queen. Black Caraiie. and yellow Caraile of the Hort. Soc. 
Cat. Nos. 18 and 19. Lord Effingham’s and Antigua of some gardens. Leaves 
short, broad, keel-shaped, and slightly spreading, dull green and very much 
tinged with lightish brown, and very mealy on the under surface. Spines strong, 
far asunder and regular. Flowers dark lilac; fruit cylindrical, sometimes round¬ 
ish; before ripening dark olive green, and rather mealy, when ripe dull yellow. 
Pips rather above the middle size, prominent. Scales covering about one third 
of the pips, and ending in a short blunt point. Flesh white, firm, remarkably 
juicy, a little sugury but not highly flavoured. Crown rather large, leaves nu¬ 
merous and spreading, quite worthless, generally deformed. 
52. Blood Red. —Claret of the Hort. Soc. No. 13, and Ananas Jamaica pur¬ 
purea of the French. This is readily distinguished by the purplish red colour of 
its leaves, which are long, broad, and rather erect. Spines large and regular. 
Flowers, lilac. Fruit cylindrical, sometimes tapering a little to the summit; 
before ripening dark purple and very mealy, when ripe a reddish chocolate. Pips 
middle-sized, slightly prominent and half covered with the scales which termi¬ 
nate abruptly in very short points. Flesh white, rather soft and melting, some¬ 
what fibrous, neither very juicy nor highly flavoured. Crown middle-sized, 
leaves rather numerous and erect. Not of much excellence. 
lo produce two crops of kidney potatoes on the same ground in one 
year. In taking up the first crop bury the tops in the trench, by turning the 
earth between the rows upon them, the ground is then ready to plant again. 
