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In the deanery-garden at Winchefter ftood 

 lately, (fo lately as the year 1757) an ancient 

 fig-tree. Through a fucceflion of many deans 

 it had been cafed up, and fhielded from winds, 

 and froil. The wall to which it was nailed, 

 was adorned with various infcriptions, in 

 Hebrew, Greek, and Latin ; alluding to fuch 

 pafTages of the facred writings, as do honour 

 to the fig-tree. After having been prefented 

 with feveral texts of fcripture, the reader was 

 informed, by way of climax, that in the year 

 1623, king James I. t aft ed of the fruit of this 

 Jig-tree ivith great pleafure. 



At Lambeth likewife are two celebrated 

 fig-trees ; which, on good grounds, are fup- 

 pofed to have been planted by cardinal Pole. 

 They are immenfe trees of the kind j covering 

 a fpace of wall, fifty feet in height, and forty 

 in breadth. The circumference of the ftem 

 of one of them is twenty-eight inches, and of 

 the other twenty-one. They are of the white 

 Marfeilles kind, and have for many years fur- 

 nifhed the tables of the archbifhops of 

 Canterbury with very delicious fruit. 



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