SCO FRUIT GARDEN DISPLAYED. 



F I G. 



T7IGS are delicious fruit, of a tender na- 

 ture, that the trees require to be trained 

 principally as wall-trees, againil: the beft 

 South walls, and produce the fruit always 

 upon the young wood, the lafl; year's (lioots, 

 iinmediattly from the eyes thereof, coming 

 out in frnall round buds, without any appear- 

 ance of bloiTom, which is contained within 

 the bud or cover, wholly concealed; and the 

 faid cover being the general calix or recep- 

 tacle, beconr.es the fruit, encreafing in fize 

 al] Summer, and ripens in Autumn, about 

 Augufc and September, confining of the foi 

 lowing varieties, 'viz. 



Karly frnall white Fig 

 Large white 

 Large blue or purple 

 Black Proyence 

 Brown Jfchia 

 Green Ifchi^ 



Green Naples 

 Genoa 



Yellow Ca;far 



Malta 



Mil ward 



Brunfwic, orMadonna 



The figs are defirable autumnal fruit, ri- 

 pening foft and rich- flavoured, very deferving 

 oi" culture in all gardens where there is proper 

 i'cope of South walls, kc. as they will not 

 ripen without that afiiftance in this country : 

 and the trees alfo producing large fucculenc 

 tender fhoots, which, without the Ihelter of 

 warm walls, are often kilJed by the froft in 



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