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but rather in pruning to preserve only that amount of foliage 

 which can perform its allotted functions properly. Those 

 who would secure the happy medium between luxuriance 

 and languor must have the roots under control. 



5thly. The finest figs, and the greatest quantity of them, 

 are produced at the extremities of the longest branches : to 

 increase the amount of such space is most desirable. The 

 fig-tree in question, after reaching the top of the house, is in- 

 curved under the top light about eighteen inches : this gives 

 great facility for getting well colored fruit without shading 

 the tree. I was led to adopt this plan from seeing the fine 

 productive state of the figs trained under the roof of a house 

 at Lord Ashburton's seat, The Grange. 



6thly. One word on figs in pots. I have found the best 

 kinds for this purpose to be the Violette, White Marseilles, 

 Black Marseilles, and Lee's Perpetual. 



After they have filled the pots with roots in which it is in- 

 tended to fruit them, they should annually have a portion of 

 their roots pared away, and be repotted in good loam, lime- 

 rubbish, and dung. They should be plunged in a gentle 

 bottom of heat on a bed of leaves, be well supplied with 

 water, and constantly pinched to make them bushy and full 

 of short spurs. It is disadvantageous to place them under 

 the shade of vines, and it may be laid down as an axiom in 

 fig culture, that they cannot have too much sun in the British 

 Isles. 



The fig-tree in question ripened its first fruit on the 25th 

 of April, from which period it has gone on bearing till the 

 present time, August 26, and it has now many dozens to ripen, 

 which assisted by fire-heat, will continue till November. 



August 2&th, 1851. 



Art. IV. Descriptions and Engravings of Select Varieties 

 of Cherries. By the Editor. 



We have taken especial pains to make a complete collec- 

 tion of cherries, and have upwards of seventy varieties ; and 



