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The Fig has always been highly estoeiucd among" the Eastern 

 Nations, We learn it was amongst the chief food of the Isreal- 

 ites, from the Holy Scriptures, The Athenians were so choice 

 of theirs that Ihey would not permit them to be exported, and 

 Saturn one of the Roman Deities, was represented as crowned 

 with new Figs. So much attention did they pay to it that in the 

 time of Pliny they had twenty-nine varieties. The Fig was 

 introduced to this country by the Romans. We have seen 

 that it was cultivated here in 1257. The Marseilles variety 

 may have been first introduced by Cardinal Pole in the reign of 

 Henry 8th, but other varieties were known much earlier 



STRAWBERRY. 121— 22 worthy of cultivation. 



The strawberry is a native of most temperate climates. It 

 is scarcely noticed by arifcient writers. The Red wood Straw- 

 berry and the Hautboy are both natives of this country; as the 

 Scarlet is of Virginia and was introduced to England about 

 1G25. The Chili was brought from America by M, Frazeir 

 into France, and into England by Miller in 1727. The Alpine 

 is a native of Germany and was first grown here ia 17G8. 



GAULTIIERIA. 1. 



GLYCOSMIS. 1 



WALNUT. 11. 



The Walnut is a native of the northern parts of China, and 

 Persia, from whence it was obtained by the Greeks, and from 

 the Greeks it was brought to the Romans by Vitoliius just 

 previous to the death of the Emperor Tiberius. They are sup- 

 posed to have been introduced here from France, and that our 

 common name is a corruption of the original Gaul-nut. It is 

 certain they were here before Tusser wrote in iJj7. 



