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stalk ; the skin thin, of a yellowish colour when 

 fully ripe, and red within. It 'is a good fruit, 

 but the trees are not good bearers. 



The Black Ischia Fig, which is a short fruit, 

 of a middling size, a little flatted at the crown ; 

 the skin almost black when ripe, and the inside 

 of a deep red J the flesh very high-flavoured. It 

 bears well, and ripens in August. 



The Malta Fig, which is a small brown fruit, 

 much compressed at the top, and greatly pinched 

 towards the foot-stalk ; the skin and inside are 

 of a pale brown colour; the flesh very sweet, 

 and well flavoured. When the fruit is permit- 

 ted to hang upon the trees till shrivelled, it be- 

 comes a fine sweetmeat. 



The Murray, or Brown Naples Fig, which 

 has a pretty large globular fruit, of a light brown 

 colour on the outside, with faint marks of a dirty 

 white, the inside nearly of the same colour; the 

 grains arc pretty large, and the flesh well fla- 

 voured. It ripens the latter end of August. 



The Green Ischia Fig, which has an oblong 

 fruit, almost globular at the crown ; the skin is 

 thin, of a green colour; but when fully ripe, 

 stained through by the pulp to a brownish cast; 

 the inside purple, the flesh high flavoured. It 

 ripens about the end of August. 



The Madonna, Brunswick, or Hanover Fig, 

 which has a long pyramidal fruit of a large size; 

 the skin brown ; the flesh of alightbrown colour, 

 coarse, with littre flavour. It ripens the end of 

 August and the beginning of September. 



The Common Blue, or Purple Fig, which is 

 oblong ; it is a great bearer. The fruit ripens in 

 August. 



The Long Brown Naples Fig, which has the 

 leaves deeply divided ; the fruit long, somewhat 

 compressed at the crown ; the foot-stalks pretty 

 long ; the skin of a dark brown when fully ripe; 

 the flesh inclining to red ; the grains large, 

 and the flesh well flavoured. It ripens in Sep- 

 tember. 



The Ycllmo Ischia Fig, which has a large 

 fruit, of a pyramidal form ; the skin is yellow 

 when ripe, and the flesh purple and well flavour- 

 ed. It is not a good bearer, but ripens in Sep- 

 tember. 



The Small Brown Ischia Fig, which has a 

 small pyramidal fruit, with a very short foot- 

 stalk ; the skin of a light brown, the flesh in- 

 clining to purple, of a very high flavour. It 

 ripenslate in September. It is not a good bearer. 



The Gentile Fig, which has a middle-sized 

 globular fruit ; the skin when ripe, yellow ; the 

 flesh also inclines to the same colour ; the grains 

 large, and the flesh well flavoured, hut it ripens 

 very late, and is a bad bearer. 



There are also others, as the Best Early White. 

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Black Provence, Cvprian, Ford's Seedling, Green 

 Naples, Large Black, Large Blue, Marseilles, 

 Mil ward, Small Black Ischia, White Ischia, 

 Yellow Ciesar. 



Those most prape* for a small garden, accord- 

 ingto Mr. Fors\ tb, are : the Large" White Genoa j 

 Early White; Murray ; SmalT Brown Ischia; 

 and the Black Ischia. 



In a good season, he observes, the Brown or 

 Chcsnut coloured Ischia ; the Black Genoa ; the 

 Small White Early ; the Murray, or Brown Na- 

 ples ; and the Common Blue, or Purple Fig, 

 will ripen on standards. 



The second species is a large tree, with leaves 

 like those of the Mulberry ; the fruit produced 

 from the trunk and large branches, haying the 

 shape of the Common fig, with a slight aroma- 

 tic sweet taste. 



It is here called the Sycomore-tree, and Mul- 

 berry Fig-tree. This, and not the Great Maple, 

 is the right Sycomorc. It is native of Egvpt. 



The third, in its native situation, is a large tree, 

 with a short trunk, and very long spreading 

 boughs: the leaves smooth, of a light green, six 

 or seven inches long, and three inches and a half 

 broad towards the base, diminishing gradually to 

 the top, where they run out into a narrow point, 

 an inch and half long : the fruit comes out on 

 the branches, is small, and of no value. It is a 

 native of the East Indies. 



The fourth species has a shrubby stem, round, 

 upright, all smooth, a fathom in height: the 

 branches like the stem: the leaves somewhat 

 waved, nerved, the size of the hand, on a semi- 

 cylindric petiole half an inch in length. It is a 

 native of the East Indies. 



The fifth, in its native climate, is a vast tree, 

 entirely smooth, the branches spreading very 

 wide, bowed down, the lower ones rooting, 

 ash-coloured : the leaves acuminate, with a 

 blunt point, obscurely waved, marked wilh pa- 

 rallel nervfes, paler underneath, a span long, on 

 semicylindric ash-coloured petioles of a finger's 

 length : fruits aggregate here and there on the 

 branchlets, peduncled, the size of a hazel nut. 



It is known by the name of Banyan-tree. It 

 is a native of the East Indies. 



Culture. — The .first sort and varieties may be 

 readily increased, either by suckers, layers, or 

 cuttings ; but the two last are the best methods, 

 according to Mr. Forsyth. 



The suckers should be taken off from the 

 roots as low down as possible, and, after being 

 trimmed, planted out in nursery rows at the 

 distance of two or three feet from each other, 

 with the top entire, to take its natural growth, 

 when intended for standards ; but, when for walls, 

 espaliers or dwarfs, in the situations where the \ 



