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bear two crops in the year in an orchard-house with 

 boarded floor, without heat. 



The Brown Turkey, or Lee's Perpetual, has also many 

 other names. The fruit is large, pear-shaped, and 

 brownish-red, covered with blue bloom. The flesh is 

 red and luscious in flavour, the tree is hardy, grows 

 to a full size, and is one of the best for growing as a 

 standard out of doors. It ripens in August and Sep- 

 tember. It bears most abundantly in pots and on walls, 

 and is a good kind for forcing. The Dwarf Prolific is 

 similar to the Brown Turkey, and a great bearer, but of 

 a dwarf habit of growth. 



The Early Violet is a small, roundish fig, brown-red, 

 with a bloom over the skin, red in flesh and good in 

 flavour, ripening in August. The tree is hardy and a 

 good bearer. It does well for pot-culture and for forcing. 

 Mr. Rivers states that in the forcing-house it will give 

 three crops in one year. 



The Black Ischia is a medium-sized, very dark fig, deep 

 red inside, sweet and rich in flavour, hardy, and a good 

 bearer. The fruit ripens in August, and the trees do 

 well in pots. The figs are roundish, flattened at the top. 

 The Brown Ischia is lighter in colour, very good, early, 

 hardy, and bears as a standard in favourable situations. 

 Against a wall it will bear two crops. 



The Brunswick is large, pear-shaped, oblique at the 

 end, green on the shady side, brown on the sunny, pink 

 in the centre, white near the skin, semi-transparent, 

 rich, sweet, and high-flavoured; it ripens in August, 

 and is one of the most useful of the hardy figs, being 

 hardy and an excellent bearer, the best of any for 

 out-door cultivation against a wall, but not good for 

 forcing. 



The Angelique (Madeleine according to some) is small, 

 pyramidal, yellow, dotted with green-white specks, white 

 in the interior, but reddish round the seeds, and not very 

 rich in flavour, but very good, with an agreeable per- 

 fume. Unless under very favourable circumstances, it 

 will not ripen without artificial heat, but it forces well, 

 and bears abundantly. 



