112 



FIGS. 



Fruit large, long. Skin dark purple, when perfectly ripe. 

 Pulp extremely sweet and luscious. 



16. SMALL BROWN ISCHIA. JVLiller, No. 13. 



Fruit small, of a pyramidal figure, with a very short foot- 

 stalk. Skin light brown. Pulp inclining to purple, of a 

 very high flavour. - 



Ripe late in September. 



The leaves of this tree are less divided than any of the 

 other sorts. 



17. VIOLETTE. Hort. Soc. Cat. No. 67. 

 Figue Violette. Duhamel, No. 3. t. 2. f. 1. 



Fruit small, shortly turbinate, and flattened at the apex, 

 one inch and three quarters or two inches in diameter, and 

 nearly the same in height. Skin deep violet. Pulp near 

 the skin white ; the interior enveloping the seeds deeply 

 tinged with red. 



The Violet Fig, like the Angelique, is cultivated in the 

 neighbourhood of Paris, and produces two crops annually ; 

 the autumnal one is the most productive ; and in a warm 

 season the fruit is excellent. 



SECT. III. Fruit Yellow, White, or Green. 



18. ANGELIQUE. Duhamel, Vol. i. No. 2. 

 Coucourelle Blanche. Hort. Soc. Cat. No. 1. 

 Mdlitte. Ib. 



Fruit rather small, somewhat pyramidal, about two inches 

 long, and one inch and three quarters in diameter. Skin 

 yellow, mottled with greenish white specks. Pulp white, 

 having the interior which envelopes the seeds tinged with 

 red. 



This sort is somewhat like the Marseilles, but longer, and, 

 like that, in the neighbourhood of Paris, produces two crops 

 annually : the first is usually thin, but the second very abun- 

 dant ; and in a fine season the fruit is excellent. 



19. GENTILE. Miller, No. 14. Forsyth, Ed. 3. No. 

 15. 



Fruit middle-sized, of a globular figure. Skin yellow, 

 when fully ripe. Pulp yellow, with large seeds. Its fla- 

 vour is very good, but it ripens late, and the trees are 

 seldom good bearers, so that it is not much grown in this 

 country. 



20. GREEN ISCHIA. Miller, No. 8. 

 Green Ischia. Forsyth, Ed. 3. No. 9. 



