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Title: New Zealand Exhibition, 1865 A Classified List of Contributions from British India and its Dependencies, Forwarded by Order of the Secretary of State for India, from the India Museum, London

Author: J. Forbes Watson

In: The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 23

Publication details: Victoria University of Wellington Library, Wellington

Part of: The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout

License: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 New Zealand Licence

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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 23

a. Pine Apple (Ananassa sativa)

a. Pine Apple **(Ananassa sativa)**.

This plant supplies the only fibre of the group which is at all likely to be employed for spinning by machinery. Its fibres are fine and very divisible. 733. Pine apple, Ananassa sativa, valued at £30 per ton, Madras.