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with Moifture than at any other 

 Time of the Yearj for by the long 

 Continuance of the Summer's Heat, 

 the Juices of Plants having been 

 cxhaufted in the Nourifliment and 

 Augmentation of IVoot'iy Leaves, 

 Truits.j Sec. and alio great Quanti- 

 ties being evaporated by Perfpi- 

 ration, the Root not being able to 

 fend up a Supply equivalent to this 

 great Confumption, the Branches 

 muft contain a much lefs Quantity 

 of Sap than in the Spring, when it 

 has had feveral Months Supply 

 from the Root, which tho' but 

 fmall in Proportion to what is 

 fent up when the Heat is greater, 

 yet there being little or no wade, 

 either by Perfpiration or Augmen- 

 tation, there muft be a greater 

 Qtiantity conrain'd in the Branches ^ 

 which alfo is eafily to be obferv'd, 

 by breaking or cutting off a vigo- 

 rous Branch of a Fig-Tree at both 

 Seafons, (the Sap being milky, may 

 be readily difcern'd) when that cut 

 in Autumn fhall be found to flop 

 its Bleeding in one Day's Time or 

 lefs i whereas, that cut in the Spring 

 will often flow a Week or more, 

 and the Wound will be propor- 

 tionably longer before it heals. 



Tho' the Lift of ¥igi, which I 

 have here added, may be greater 

 in Number of Sorts than many 

 People at prefeiit know, yet it is 

 very fmall when compar'd with 

 the great Variety of Sorts which 

 are known in the more Southern 

 Countries of Europe j from whence 

 I am in Hopes, in a fl;iort Time, 

 I fliall be fupply'd with m.any more 

 Kinds than are here niention'dj 

 nor do I think there is any Sort of 

 Fruit deferves more our Care to 

 cultivate and improve than this, 

 and yci it rarely happens that we 

 meet with more than four or five 

 Sorts in moil of our cunous Fruit- 



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Gardens, when at the fame Time, 

 perhaps, theWails are fill'd with great 

 Colle6tions of Pears or Plumbs, few 

 of which either deferve the Place 

 or Care taken in their pruning (^c. 

 or at ieaft would thrive as well if 

 planted in Efpaliers or Standards. 



I have not, as yet, feen any Figs 

 planted in an Efpalier, and fb can't 

 fay how they would fucceedj but 

 fince fome of the Sorts do, in di- 

 vers Parts of England, bear very 

 well in Standards, I don't fee why 

 they (hould not be try'd ; however, 

 if we fhould be at the Expence of 

 covering them in hard Winters, 

 there is no doubt but they would 

 fucceed very well. 



The lixtcenth Sort is by many 

 People fuppos'd to be the true Sy- 

 ca?nore-Tree mention'd in Scripture, 

 which is a fort of Fig^ which pro- 

 duces its Fruit out of the old Wood 

 of the Tree, and is very fmall ; 

 but as this Tree has not produced 

 any Fruit with us, fo I cannot de- 

 termine whether it be the right 

 Kind or not. 



Tlie fevcntccnth and eighteenth 

 Sorts here mentioned are very ten- 

 der Plants, being Inhabitants of 

 warm Countries: I received Seeds 

 of both thefe Sorts from Jamaicdy 

 from which I rais'd niany Plants, 

 Ibme of which arc grown to a con- 

 fiderable Size: and the feventcenth 

 Sort has pufli'd out many fmall 

 Figs from the Joints, but they 

 dropt off in a fliort Time without 

 coming to Maturity. 



The eighteenth Sort is call'd the 

 lndi.-\n God Tree, it being a Tree 

 under which the religious Indians 

 perform their Worfliip. 



Thefe are both very hand fome 

 Plants, and deferve a Place in all 

 curious Colleftions of Exotick Trees: 

 They may be propagated by Layers, 

 as the comi>ion Fig, but fliould be 

 planted 



