FIGS. 201 



fig were not good for the grapes. In the vinery I found Brown 

 Turkey or Lee's Perpetual, excellent ; White Ischia, though small, 

 delicious ; White Marseilles, most luscious ; Early Violet, small but 

 good. Upon the whole, I recommend for orchard-house cultivation 

 Lee's Perpetual : this is now grown with me in the orchard-house, and 

 yields fine crops of its excellent fruit. The tree is trained under 

 the glass, and gives very little- trouble ; the only thing is to afford it 

 plenty of light. Up to this time I have never had a fig from an 

 outdoor tree, although they grow in great 'abundance on standards 

 at Worthing in Sussex. The best outdoor fig is the Black Brunswick, 

 although it is reputed not to force well, and I have planted a small 

 tree of this in a dry and warm part of the garden, in the hope 

 that it will gradually grow and bear fruit, as the old standard trees 

 do at Worthing. The propagation of the fig is very simple ; every 

 little sucker, every cutting will grow, and it may be freely multiplied 

 by the process of circumvallation. 



THE MULBERRY. 



" lite salubres 



Estates peraget, qui nigris prandia moris 

 Finiet, ante gravem quae legerit arbore solem." 



HORACE, Satira iv. 



Every garden used to have its Mulberry-tree (Morns nigrd} : no one, 

 however, now plants a mulberry- tree. If our forefathers had not done 

 more for us than we are doing for our posterity, we should have been 

 utterly deprived of this delicious fruit. I have a mulberry-tree in my 

 orchard-house, where the fruit really ripens. Mr. Rivers tells 

 me that his orchard-house mulberries (fig. 379) are large ; 

 mine, however, have been small, but so sweet and delicious 

 as to be like another kind of fruit. I recommend everyone FIG ^l' 



. berry, i diam. 



who has an orchard-house to have a pot mulberry-tree : 



they will be no less astonished than gratified by the excellent quality 



of the fruit. 







