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Brown Turkey or Naples Fig. Fruit large, oblong 

 pyriform. Skin brown red with a thick blue bloom. Flesh 

 red, sweet, luscious. Hardy and prolific, ripening early. 



Castle Kennedy. Very large, obovate. Skin dull 

 brown mottled with grey. Flesh pale reddish at centre, 

 tender, sweet, but not highly flavoured. Hardy, robust, 

 prolific and ripening very early. 



Smyrna. There are several closely related varieties 

 which go under this name. It is the best of drying figs. 

 Fruit medium, very sweet, firm and richly flavoured. 



White Adriatic. Fruit fairly large, pyriform, short 

 stalked. Skin yellowish green, very thin. Flesh clear* 

 red, drying yellow, very sweet and rich. A good drying 

 fig. Hardy and prolific. 



White Genoa, or Grosse Marseille. Fruit large, obo- 

 vate, rounded, short necked. Skin greenish yellow, spotted. 

 Flesh pale red, sweet and highly flavoured. Not very 

 hardy and bears moderately. 



THE WALNUT AND CHESTNUT. 



These two valuable trees have hardly yet received tbe 

 attention they deserve, and the tendency to treat them as 

 something akin to forest plantation trees rather than 

 orchard stock militates against their due estimation and 

 careful culture. The walnut absolutely requires a deep 

 rich soil with plentiful moisture deep down under the 

 superficial layer, if it is to make an adequate return for the 

 comparatively large space it demands. It certainly will 

 grow to wood if parsimoniously treated, but its marketable 

 return in such condition is only small. Hitherto it ha* 

 almost always been reproduced by seedlings from selected 

 nuts, and consequently the ordinary Cape Walnut of the 

 market is variable and often small. It is also a fact that 

 some seedling trees will remain persistently barren even 

 when fifteen to twenty years old. Of course, the care and 

 discernment which go to the production of other fruits will 

 equally beneficially affect this one, and at least one attempt 



