170 FIGS. 



are fit to take up from the stools, and to plant out where 

 they are intended to remain. 



Cuttings taken from plants where layers cannot be 

 admitted may be planted singly in pots, and placed 

 under a frame, in a gentle heat, in March, and they will 

 make good plants at the end of the year. 



Pruning and Training. 



There is no description of fruit tree more easy to 

 manage in its formation than the Fig : it produces 

 shoots in abundance, and they grow readily and luxuri- 

 antly in every direction. 



This being the case, it is not very material whether 

 the plant be particularly handsome when it is first 

 planted out, provided it be clean, strong, and well 

 rooted. Should there be any suckers rising up from 

 the root, as there generally will be when the plants have 

 been raised from suckers, they must be carefully removed, 

 cutting them clean off at the place where they are pro- 

 duced. 



If the plant be put out in the autumn, it must be 

 protected by some light dry covering, to prevent its 

 head being injured by frost ; and it must also be well 

 mulched to secure its roots. It is, however, sufficiently 

 early to plant the fig in March ; and the latter end of 

 April it may be trained to the wall, if the head be large 

 enough and sufficiently handsome : if not, it should be 

 headed down within nine inches of the ground, in order 

 to its forming a new head. Should the plant be strong, 

 it will, after this, throw up six or eight shoots : these 

 must be trained obliquely, at regular distances, from 

 one side to the other, and continued till the autumn. 

 Previously to the frost setting in the top must again be 

 protected, and the ground mulched as before, in case of 



