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PART IT. 
HORTICULTURAL AND RURAL SUBJECTS. 
REVIEWS AND EXTRACTS. 
Article I — Reviews of, and Extracts from, Works on 
Horticulture, 8$c. 
1.^ — Transactions of the London Horticultural Society. 
Vol. I, Part II. Second Series. 
A Report on the Varieties of the Pine-Apple, cultivated in the Society*s Garden. 
By Mr. Donald Munro, F.L.S., Gardener to the Society. Read, De¬ 
cember 7th & 21st, 1830, and January 4th, 1831. 
After a few preliminary observations, Mr, Munro proceeds to give the fol¬ 
lowing classification of them:— 
Species I.— Ananassa bracteata. 
1 Scarlet. 
II. —Ananassa debilis. 
2 Wave-leaved. 
III. —Ananassa i-ucida. 
3 King. 4 Fisherwick Striped Globe. 
» IV. —Anan.assa sativa. 
* Leaves spineless. a Floioers purple. 
5 Ilavannah. 6 Smooth Havannah. 
b Flowers lilac, nearly white. Frnii globnlar. 
7 Green Antigua. 
Fruit pyramidal. 
8 Striped Smooth-leaved Sugar-lo4f. 
** Leaves with minute spines, {about 11 in an inch on an average.) 
a Flawers purple. Fruit oval. 
9 White Providence. 10 Green Java. 11 Black Jamaica. 
Fruit cylindrical. 
12 Orange Sugar-loaf. 13 Downton Havannah. 
Fruit pyramidul. 
14 New Jamaica. 
b Flowers lilac, 
15 New Demerara. IG Striped Surinam. 
