This shop was to be painted black with lines of gold, and was to have on it in huge letters the announcement, "ananas des Jardies"; but Gautier managed to persuade Balzac in order to avoid useless expense, not to hire it till the next year, when the pineapples would have had time to grow.
"Honore de Balzac, His Life and Writings"
Mary F. Sandars
The fruits are the cocoa, areca, banana, papaya, white and red shaddock, mangostan, rambootang, ananas, and betel.
"Old Jack"
W.H.G. Kingston
Look at the preserved fruits, look at the golden ginger, the outspreading ananas, the darling little rogues of China oranges, ranged in the gleaming crystal cylinders.
"A Little Dinner at Timmins's"
William Makepeace Thackeray