2T4 ATREATISEOF 

 after, part of the v/all would have con^ 

 tinued a long time bare. 



As the roots of a fig-tree are hke thofe 

 of vines, fo muft they be planted the fame 

 y/ay, tho' pruned diitcrently. 



If the young ihoots of a fig-tree are 

 not too near each other they v^'iii produce 

 almoft as much fruit as leaves, both from 

 the fame places, but not all of them at the 

 fame time ^ for the leaves drop oil' the trees 

 when the fruit near the upper ends of the 

 branches are only like fuiall buds ; and 

 there are many other appear the next fpring 

 from leaves where leaves were fned from 

 in the autumn, that is, at the extremity 

 of thofc fhoots that were not killed by the 

 winter's frofts. 



Thefe fmall ones and thofe that only ap- 

 pear in the fpring, are the moft certain to 

 ripen, for thofe which are pretty large in 

 the autumn are liable to be killed in the 

 winter , but if any of them live they ri- 

 pen the earlieft the following fummer, and 

 are the beft fruit. 



Thofe which appear the largefl: at the 

 tirne of the trees fhedding their leaves, 

 ^A^ere fiich as put out earlieft upon the new 



made 



