( '52 ) 



In the deanery-garden at Winchefter flood 

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

 fig-tree. Through a fucceffion of many deans 

 it had been cafed up, and fhielded from winds, 

 and froft. 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, k* n & y^M^s ! tajled of the fruit of this 

 fig-tree with 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 ; 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- 

 niilied the tables of the archbifhops of 

 Canterbury with very delicious fruit. 



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