Fig Culture and Protection. 



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roots. As the Fig may be seen in good bearing condition as a 

 standard tree in Sussex, it has occurred to me that this mode of 

 culture might be practised with some advantage on our sunny 

 railway banks in the south, which are now naked and utterly 

 useless. 



FIG. 67. 



In interring the sloping plantations a slightly different system 

 is pursued the branches are conducted in an upward direction, and 

 covered in, as shown by Fig. 67. 



